Activate

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Verb

Activate (third-person singular simple present Activates, present participle activating, simple past and past participle activated)

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

Synonyms

• actuate

Antonyms

• deactivate

Thesaurus

accelerate; actuate; animate; arouse; atomize; awaken; bombard; charge; cleave; contaminate; cross-bombard; energize; fission; galvanize; get going; impel; infect; initiate; irradiate; mobilize; motivate; move; nucleize; poison; prompt; radiumize; rally; reactivate; recharge; remilitarize; rouse; set going; set in motion; smash the atom; start; stimulate; stir; switch on; trigger; turn on; wake; waken