Meaning & use
Inactivated
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Made inactive or rendered nonfunctional, especially a virus or enzyme treated so it can no longer cause disease or react.
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The vaccine uses an inactivated form of the virus that cannot replicate.
Her account was inactivated after months of no activity.
A note on using this word
Frequently used in immunology to describe vaccines made from killed pathogens, as opposed to 'attenuated' live vaccines.
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