activate

About 3.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.

   activate the economy

2. verb To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.

   The pranksters activated the fire alarm by spraying deodorant next to it.

3. verb To render more reactive; excite.
4. verb To render a molecule reactive, active, or effective in performing its function.
5. verb To render a substance radioactive.
6. verb To hasten a chemical reaction, especially by heating.
7. verb To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
8. verb To aerate in order to aid decomposition of organic matter.

Similar words

actuate touch off trip set off spark off spark trigger aerate trigger off triggering

Often followed by

the a it and or an this your their them

Word family

activated activates activating activation activations activator activators