Verb
To make active.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere might simply be nothing going on that might activate it. Perhaps there isn't anything here that Alec is afraid of." Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. "Boo. Cassandra Clare
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Manuel Puig
Let us wage war on totality; let us be witnesses to the unpresentable, let us activate the different and save the honor of the name. Jean-François Lyotard
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I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day. Gregg Easterbrook
During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization. Ibrahim Rugova