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activate

English

  1. 🔊 make active or more active
    “activate an old file”
  2. 🔊 make (substances) radioactive
  3. 🔊 aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
  4. 🔊 make more adsorptive
    “activate a metal”
  5. 🔊 put in motion or move to act
    “trigger a reaction”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 movilizar to activate
  2. 🔊 activar to activate, to enable (to put a mechanism, device or system into action or motion)

Similar words

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