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automate

Verb (usu participle)

au=to=mate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

automate(v = verb.change) automatise, automatize - make automatic or control or operate automatically; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot"

is one way to alter, change, modify

Derived forms noun automation₁, noun automation₂

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

automate, v.

make automatic; to change [a process] so that it is mostly automatic; to substitute machinery for human labor in an activity. [WordNet 1.5]

automate, v.tr. convert to or operate by automation (the ticket office has been automated).

Etymology

back-form. f. AUTOMATION

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