What is another word for activate?
Synonyms for activate
ˈæk təˌveɪtac·ti·vate
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Wiktionary
activateverb
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actuateAntonyms:
deactivateactivateverb
To put into action, to put to work.
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actuateAntonyms:
deactivateactivateverb
To turn on.
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actuateAntonyms:
deactivate
Princeton's WordNet
trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch offverb
put in motion or move to act
"trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
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jaunt, trip out, start, incite, detonate, offset, get off, motivate, spark, trip up, propel, take off, explode, instigate, trigger off, move, part, trigger, trip, depart, set off, stumble, prompt, turn on, spark off, touch off, blow up, bring out, travel, start out, sparkle, set forth, actuate, stir up, cancel, aerate, set outAntonyms:
deactivate, inactivateactivateverb
make active or more active
"activate an old file"
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set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch offAntonyms:
deactivate, inactivateactivateverb
make more adsorptive
"activate a metal"
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set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch offAntonyms:
deactivate, inactivateactivate, aerateverb
aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
Synonyms:
set off, trigger, actuate, oxygenize, trigger off, air out, spark, oxygenise, oxygenate, trip, spark off, air, aerate, touch offAntonyms:
inactivate, deactivateactivateverb
make (substances) radioactive
Synonyms:
set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch offAntonyms:
deactivate, inactivate
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PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "activate":
enable, activating, active, trigger, activation, actuate, effectuating, enabled, turn
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#207 | part | |
#220 | travel | |
#474 | start | |
#478 | air | |
#954 | active | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1142 | move | |
#1706 | trip | |
#2041 | enable | |
#3392 | enabled | |
#3439 | cancel | |
#5179 | offset | |
#5930 | activation | |
#6394 | prompt | |
#6906 | trigger | |
#10049 | activate | |
#10105 | depart | |
#10274 | spark | |
#17533 | sparkle | |
#18201 | explode | |
#18233 | motivate | |
#21346 | activating | |
#24734 | stumble | |
#33849 | actuate | |
#33969 | propel | |
#42683 | incite | |
#69319 | detonate | |
#71096 | jaunt | |
#76428 | instigate | |
#109660 | oxygenate | |
#144382 | aerate | |
#204531 | effectuating |
How to use activate in a sentence?
Immuno-oncology is just at the beginning of its development, frankly, I think it won't be enough to just remove a checkpoint inhibitor because it is also important to activate the immune system.
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.
They're different in terms of the way to activate the central nervous system, but the overall outcome is similar.
If you have just a few minutes, hop on that activate and punish those voters!
The pharmacy supply is complementing, not competing with the state supply, we have been able to work with them to activate certain stores first and hold on other ones in areas that we didn't have any need.
Translations for activate
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- فَعَّلَArabic
- активирам, пускамBulgarian
- activarCatalan, Valencian
- ανοίγω, ενεργοποιώGreek
- aktivigiEsperanto
- activarSpanish
- käivitama, rakendamaEstonian
- käynnistää, aktivoidaFinnish
- allumer, actionner, activerFrench
- activarGalician
- attivareItalian
- inschakelen, activeren, aanzettenDutch
- ativarPortuguese
- activaRomanian
- включа́ть, активи́ровать, [[привести́]] в [[де́йствие]], активизи́ровать, включи́ть, [[приводи́ть]] в [[де́йствие]]Russian
- aktiveraSwedish
- เปิดใช้งานThai
- אַקטאַווייטYiddish
- 啟用Chinese
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