inactivate
i nak ti vayt
- v release from military service or remove from the active list of military service
- v make inactive
- He reasoned that it might also inactivate the powerful digestive juice, pepsin.
- It generally takes six to eight months to grow enough virus, chemically inactivate it and blend the strains to make the vaccine.
- The vaccine was made by the same process as the Salk polio vaccine, using formaldehyde to inactivate the virus.