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Meanings of
actuate
in English
Portuguese
activar
Spanish
provocar
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Put in motion or move to act.
trip
trigger
spark
activate
set off
spark off
trigger off
touch off
Portuguese
activar
Portuguese
motivar
Spanish
motivar
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Give an incentive for action.
move
prompt
propel
motivate
incite
Portuguese
motivar
Usage of
actuate
in English
1
All these motives
actuate
men and sometimes drive them in different ways.
2
The appetites and passions would infallibly occupy and
actuate
the whole man.
3
I have no selfish ambition to gratify, no personal motives to
actuate
.
4
Is their purpose to appeal to our understanding, and
actuate
our humanity?
5
He knew the reputation of Johnson, and the motives which might
actuate
him.
6
It is the true spirit that should
actuate
a Wau-Wau Girl.
7
True it is there are many feelings that
actuate
me at this moment.
8
Now I have no feeling of that kind to
actuate
me.
9
Divine thought and energy, love and blessing
actuate
every action of my being.
10
Self-love, directed by wisdom, is perhaps the best principle that can
actuate
him.
11
But the Golden Rule doesn't
actuate
the bulk of mankind, unfortunately.
12
Geometrically moving your arm to
actuate
the big arm up there.
13
This idea seems to
actuate
all animals when in the last stage of thirst.
14
He was void of any of these feelings which
actuate
men to do good.
15
But he was perhaps equally void of those which
actuate
men to do evil.
16
Have I laid finger on the sentiments which
actuate
you?
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
actuate
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
actuate men
actuate a mechanism
actuate all animals
actuate christian
actuate every action
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Translations for
actuate
Portuguese
activar
desencadear
motivar
propulsar
provocar
montivar
estimular
Spanish
provocar
desencadenar
motivar
incitar
Actuate
through the time
Actuate
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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