to actuate
- verb
- /ˈæktʃuˌeɪt/
:
motivar
- The accusations were made by people who were actuated by malice and who were purposefully trying to destroy my career.
The accusations were made by people who were actuated by malice and who were purposefully trying to destroy my career.
- 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
837
3.2
Cause someone to feel excited and ready to act
437
3.5
Make someone want to do something
236
3.7
Make a person or thing more active, alert and responsive
217
3.6
Make someone do or say something
143
3.0
Get something you want by working to reach it
115
3.7
Cause a reaction or feeling
72
7.7
To push people to do violent or illegal acts
51
4.9
Persuade someone to do something
45
4.7
To make someone want to do something
39
6.7
To make people feel shocked and excited so they act
36
6.9
To cause something bad to start
21
3.2
To take action that causes events or results
7
4.8
To make someone or something start to move and become active
7
4.9
Cause a feeling or reaction to appear in people
4
7.2
To make someone feel they must do something, often because of pressure or need
4
8.6
To make something happen, for example a plan or change
Made to do something by a feeling or a machine
Antonyms
How Strong
258
4.8
- NSFW
72
7.7
437
3.5
∞
2.3
217
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.