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"
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 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?
When you activate this receptor, it makes you sleepy, many sleep aids that we take work on GABA.
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.
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.
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.
If we could preferentially activate these antibodies, we could have a better influenza vaccine.
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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