The process of rendering inactive.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption^†, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; eboulement [Fr.], smash, havoc, delabrement [Fr.], debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement [Fr.], wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.    extinction, annihilation; destruction of life etc. 361; knock-down blow; doom, crack of doom.    destroying etc. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition etc. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm^†; sacrifice; ravage, razzia^†; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution etc. 146; extirpation etc. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin [Fr.], road to ruin; dilapidation etc. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.    ... meer laten zien

Breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges).

synoniem: deactivation.