ineffectuate

English

Etymology

ineffectual +‎ -ate

Verb

ineffectuate (third-person singular simple present ineffectuates, present participle ineffectuating, simple past and past participle ineffectuated)

1. To make ineffectual; to disable.
   • 2005, Morgan de Dapper, Tropical forests in a changing global context, page 85:

     The case of the Malinau study provides an excellent example of how the social and political elements conspire to ineffectuate expert-led decisionmaking in the environmental planning process.

   • 2006, William A. Dembski, Darwin's Nemesis:

     The existence of chaos does ineffectuate the Newtonian image of a clockwork universe and the Laplacean dream of a completely controllable world.

   • 2014, Sujogya Kumar Panda, Laxmipriya Padhi, Akshaya Kumar Bastia, “Medicinal Properties of Indigenous Plants Used in the Preparation of Traditional Rice Beverage "Handia" Among the Tribals of Mayurbhanj Districts, Odisha, India”, in Subha Ganguly, editor, Herbal Immune Enhancers and Indigenous Herbs, Plants and Fruits and its Traditional Implications in Therapy Including Alternative Medicines, page 80:

     These groups of phytochemicals possess wide ranging chemical functional groups; by which they establish and bind to sites on target pathogens to ineffectuate them.