• 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.