- to cause to be inactive; remove the effectiveness of.
- to demobilize or disband (a military unit).
- to render (a bomb, shell, or the like) inoperative, especially by disconnecting, removing, or otherwise interfering with the action of the fuze.
- to render (a chemical, enzyme, catalyst, etc.) inactive.
- to lose radioactivity.
- to make (a bomb, etc) harmless or inoperative
- to become less radioactive
- to end the active status of (a military unit)
- to return or cause to return from an activated state to a normal or ground state
