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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To set in motion; make active or more active.
  2. v. To organize or create (a military unit, for example): activate the National Guard.
  3. v. To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
  4. v. Chemistry To accelerate a reaction in, as by heat.
  5. v. Physics To make (a substance) radioactive.
  6. v. Biology To convert (certain biological compounds) into biologically active derivatives.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

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

Wiktionary

  1. v. To put into action, to put to work.
  2. v. To turn on.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To make active.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. put in motion or move to act
  2. v. make active or more active
  3. v. make more adsorptive
  4. v. make (substances) radioactive
  5. v. aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. animated
  1. actuate

antonyms (1)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. deactivate

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. initiate
  1. pioneer
  1. change
  1. modify
  1. alter

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  1. apoptotic
  2. venular
  3. self-reactive
  4. splenic
  1. glycosphingolipid
  2. plasmacytoid
  3. cytotoxic
  4. cancer-fighting
  1. inducible
  2. autologous
  3. tolerogenic
  4. antigen-specific
  1. junctional
  2. single-pole
  3. backflow
  4. neonatal
  1. acyl
  2. electric-light
  3. necrotic
  4. microvascular

rhymes (1)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. reactivate

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. reactivate
  2. put
  3. chemokine
  4. captopril
  5. enable
  6. energize
  1. double-click
  2. toolbar
  3. actuate
  4. control key
  5. throw
  6. proof
  1. pianola
  2. player piano
  3. raise
  4. reset button
  5. self-acting
  6. self-activating
  1. self-moving
  2. self-regulating
  3. activate
  4. click
  5. invoke
  6. jam
  1. spark
  2. punch
  3. trigger
  4. fast-forward
  5. horn button
  6. mechanical piano
  1. mousetrap
  2. T cell
  3. trip

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