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Synonyms for activate
ˈæk təˌveɪtac·ti·vate

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. activateverb

    Synonyms:
    actuate

    Antonyms:
    deactivate

  2. activateverb

    To put into action, to put to work.

    Synonyms:
    actuate

    Antonyms:
    deactivate

  3. activateverb

    To turn on.

    Synonyms:
    actuate

    Antonyms:
    deactivate

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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"

    Synonyms:
    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 out

    Antonyms:
    deactivate, inactivate

  2. activateverb

    make active or more active

    "activate an old file"

    Synonyms:
    set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch off

    Antonyms:
    deactivate, inactivate

  3. activateverb

    make more adsorptive

    "activate a metal"

    Synonyms:
    set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch off

    Antonyms:
    deactivate, inactivate

  4. activate, 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 off

    Antonyms:
    inactivate, deactivate

  5. activateverb

    make (substances) radioactive

    Synonyms:
    set off, trigger, actuate, trigger off, spark, trip, spark off, aerate, touch off

    Antonyms:
    deactivate, inactivate

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PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "activate":

    enable, activating, active, trigger, activation, actuate, effectuating, enabled, turn

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How to use activate in a sentence?

  1. Raj Dasgupta:

    When you activate this receptor, it makes you sleepy, many sleep aids that we take work on GABA.

  2. Brett Foster:

    There are two sort of interesting properties about this region, it appears to have a unique contribution to processes that relate to memory, which is that tasks that use autobiographical or self-referential information about ‘me’— past and future— activate this region, but for tasks where you’re doing something you might consider oppositional, not focused on yourself but on external environment, this network gets turned down actively.

  3. Lawrence Blatt:

    If we can in the same time we're giving direct antivirals and blocking( virus) replication, activate the immune system and wake it up, maybe we can cause patients to clear HBV.

  4. Lindsey Graham:

    I'm in the camp of, if they don't activate the S-400, the sanctions don't have to be applied. My hope is to persuade Turkey not to active the system because it's so disruptive to the relationship, my pitch to Turkey was, let's stand down on the S-400, let's start free trade agreement negotiations.

  5. Patrick Wilson:

    If we could preferentially activate these antibodies, we could have a better influenza vaccine.


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