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Activate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To set in motion; make active or more active.

v. To organize or create (a military unit, for example): activate the National Guard.

v. To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.

v. Chemistry To accelerate a reaction in, as by heat.

v. Physics To make (a substance) radioactive.

v. Biology To convert (certain biological compounds) into biologically active derivatives.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To put into action, to put to work.

v. To turn on.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To make active.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To make active; intensify.

In physics, to render active; specifically, to make radioactive by exposure to the influence of a radioactive substance; to ionize. See radioactivity.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. put in motion or move to act

v. make active or more active

v. make more adsorptive

v. make (substances) radioactive

v. aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

Word Usage

"We have all seen Teppo activate from the blue line and drop in."

Antonym

deactivate

Verb Form

activated activates activating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

initiate pioneer change modify alter

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

animated actuate

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

reactivate

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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