decommissioned

adjective

as in deactivated

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Recent Examples of decommissioned The film follows Burne Peter (List), an off-Broadway actress who joins an international theater troupe at a decommissioned prison on the Ukrainian coast. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026 The startup is building a robotic spacecraft designed to capture and remove space debris, including some of the thousands of dead or decommissioned satellites in Earth’s orbit that threaten space operations. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026 There’s also the Kettle Valley Rail Trail, which runs through the city of Penticton, is a decommissioned railway network that’s been transformed into 410 miles of cycling trails. — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2026 The teen fell about 40 to 50 feet down the vertical underground structure into what rescue workers determined was an exhaust vent tunnel for a decommissioned Titan Missile Facility, according to a statement from Sable Altura Fire Rescue. — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 10 July 2026 Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine fires a torpedo at the decommissioned USS Juneau in support of a live-fire sinking exercise (SINKEX) as part of Valiant Shield 2026 while underway in the Philippine Sea, June 27, 2026. — Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 By Bay City News A decommissioned riverboat in Vallejo caught fire late Friday night, according to the Vallejo Fire Department. — Bay City News, Mercury News, 20 June 2026 In February, it was reported that the National Park Service will exhibit a decommissioned equestrian monument of a slaveholding signatory of the Declaration of Independence. — Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026 The project will be sited at the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, a decommissioned Army Base near the entrance of the Bay Bridge operated by developer Phil Tagami, who has been trying for years to turn it into a marine shipping terminal. — Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decommissioned
  1. deactivated
  2. inactive
  3. broken
  4. inoperative
  5. nonfunctioning
  6. nonoperational
  7. nonfunctional
  8. useless
Adjective
  • Authorities discovered 113 vials, with some testing positive for deactivated monkeypox virus.
    — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 June 2026
  • Unlike brewer's yeast, which is activated, nutritional yeast is a deactivated or inactive strain of the fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2026
Definition of deactivated
Adjective
  • Rather, the department says testing is recommended because inactive, or latent, TB often causes no symptoms.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Bazelak got the start when backup Jake Browning was inactive after suffering a back strain in practice against the Jets on Wednesday.
    — Rick Stroud, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of inactive
Adjective
  • Evans had 11 straight 1,000-yard seasons to open his career and scored 24 touchdowns over 2023-2024 before a broken collarbone/concussion ended his year abruptly in 2025.
    — Jess Bryant, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Yungblud didn’t let a broken leg prevent him from engaging in a little crowd-surfing as the singer — wheelchair in tow — took a spin atop the audience Tuesday at his Portugal show.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of broken
Adjective
  • If the main engines were to become inoperative, six smaller orbit-control thrusters can still be activated on the lunar surface, providing an alternative pathway for a rapid ascent.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026
  • And there’s been plenty of media focus since then — including on inoperative toilets.
    — Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of inoperative
Adjective
  • Drivers say their contract issues center on pay as well as safety issues, including nonfunctioning heaters, loudspeakers and windshield wipers.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In 2020, the state of Virginia passed some bills limiting pretextual traffic stops—for example, when police spot nonfunctioning brake or tail lights or hear an overly loud exhaust system.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
Definition of nonfunctioning
Adjective
  • Kosmos 2553 began to spin out of control in April 2025 and is believed to currently be nonoperational.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 8 July 2026
  • The car was nonoperational and not under his name, but was left in his care.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
Definition of nonoperational
Adjective
  • Peekachu, for example, has a nonfunctional right eye, while Secord enjoys moving enrichment items around the habitat with her mouth.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • In most populations around the world, many of these genes have accumulated mutations over time that have left about 60 percent of them nonfunctional.
    — Willow Zhang, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of nonfunctional
Adjective
  • Garcia and Vargas Bustamante both agreed that not all of the health advice available on social media is useless, predatory or incorrect.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • If an agent queries a legacy database to decide whether to trigger an outreach sequence or prioritize an account, a flat list of static attributes is fundamentally useless to its reasoning engine.
    — Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of useless

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“Decommissioned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decommissioned. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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