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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb activate has 5 senses

• activate(v = verb.creation) actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip - put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
is one way to initiate, pioneer
Derived form noun activation₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• activate(v = verb.change) Array - make active or more active; "activate an old file"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived forms noun activation₃, noun activator₁
Antonym: inactivate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

• activate(v = verb.change) Array - make more adsorptive; "activate a metal"
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun activation₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• activate(v = verb.change) aerate - aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter; Array
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun activation₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

• activate(v = verb.change) Array - make (substances) radioactive; Array
is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun activation₁
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something

CIDE DICTIONARY

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

activate

accelerate, actuate, animate, arouse, atomize, awaken, bombard, charge, cleave, contaminate, cross-bombard, energize, fission, galvanize, get going, impel, infect, initiate, irradiate, mobilize, motivate, move, nucleize, poison, prompt, radiumize, rally, reactivate, recharge, remilitarize, rouse, set going, set in motion, smash the atom, start, stimulate, stir, switch on, trigger, turn on, wake, waken

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