activate

Verb

Meaning

To make active.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

trigger start enable stimulate spark actuate turn on set in motion rouse operate trip initiate prompt mobilize awaken
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Antonyms

inactivate deactivate pip crown nib end
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Hypernyms

change alter modify initiate pioneer

Hyponyms

reactivate

Related terms

activation

Phrases with the word

de activate

Anagrams

cavitate

Examples

There 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

The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate those drives is the secret to success and happiness. This is a smart and beautifully written book, and it will electrify your life. Get this book! Daniel Amen

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

Close letter words and terms

activase activatability activatable activated activated by activated carbon