passify

Verb

1. To make or become passive.
   • The distinction between the two voices, active and passive, is easy enough to make. The way you "passify" a verb is to start out with some form of the auxiliary "to be" and follow the auxiliary with the past participle...
   • For non-passive systems, however, passivity-based control techniques cannot be used directly. One way of making nonpassive systems amenable to passivity-based control is to render such systems passive, i.e., to passify...
   • Finally, [the command] passify does not generate version-optimal programs; the notion of version-optimal passive form, which uses the [...] - 2016, Peter Thiemann, Programming Languages and Systems: 25th European...

   Synonyms: passivize