to actuate
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7.0
- verb
- /ˈæktʃuˌeɪt/
- The accusations were made by people who were actuated by malice and who were purposefully trying to destroy my career.
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- The accusations were made by people who were actuated by malice and who were purposefully trying to destroy my career.
Examples
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I'm going to actuate you with learning resources and you'll achieve some outcome.
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The "blue clouds" actuated a community response that ultimately led to the town's sale.
Academic text (2005) -
At first, he appears to have been actuated by the desire, which one can understand and sympathize with, to put as great a distance between Sidney McMurdo and himself in the shortest possible time.
Fiction book (1998) -
As he stated in a letter to his cousin, Washington Poe, "I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honorable one—the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavoring to forward the literature of the country."
Academic text (1993) -
The teacher's encouragement can really actuate students to pursue their goals.
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Seeing the impact of their work can actuate volunteers to help even more in the community.
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A strong desire to succeed can actuate an athlete to train harder every day.
Synonyms
∞
3.6
To cause someone to want to do something strongly
∞
2.7
Make someone believe something is true or agree to do something
980
3.2
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
255
3.6
Make someone do or say something
196
3.5
Make someone want to do something
185
3.7
Make a person or thing more active, alert and responsive
151
3.0
Get something you want by working to reach it
134
3.7
Cause a reaction or feeling
75
7.7
To push people to do violent or illegal acts
38
3.2
To take action that causes events or results
37
6.9
To cause something bad to start
33
6.7
To make people feel shocked and excited so they act
31
4.7
To make someone want to do something
31
4.8
To make someone or something start to move and become active
30
4.9
Persuade someone to do something
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4.9
Cause a feeling or reaction to appear in people
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7.2
To make someone feel they must do something, often because of pressure or need
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8.6
To make something happen, for example a plan or change
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6.0
Made to do something by a feeling or a machine
Antonyms
How Strong
247
4.8
- NSFW
75
7.7
1
7.0
196
3.5
877
2.3
255
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Actuate comes from the root act, the same root in action and actor, and it means 'to do' or 'to drive'. So to actuate a person or feeling is to push them into action, to make them do something.