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• The filling fluid will leak out making the system inoperative.
• To put out of action.
• The high temperature knocked out (жарг.) the transmitter before the spacecraft reached the surface.
• A special control cock, by means of which the air pump can be rendered inoperative ...
• This change rendered unfit (for use) a system of gravity-flow irrigation that had previously been installed.
• The fire disabled one part of the pipeline.
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