Synonyms for activate
ˈæk təˌveɪtac·ti·vate

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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

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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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1. List of paraphrases for "activate":

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

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1. Marlon Marshall:

   If you have just a few minutes, hop on that activate and punish those voters!

2. Brett Gosper:

   They have the possibility from ’22 onwards to activate commercially in international markets. They haven’t had that right until now, there might be five or six teams each in Germany and in the UK who decide to come here and activate, and they may well wish to put games on to accelerate that activation possibility.

3. Patrick Wilson:

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

4. Karl Kraus:

   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.

5. Protection District -RRB- Denney:

   New appliances are being seen with touch controls that activate by the simple touch of a finger. An animal’s paw can also activate these types of controls, please use built in safety’s if available on appliances when not in use and accessible by children and/or animals.