ac·ti·vate 
(ăktə-vāt′)
(ăktə-vāt′)tr.v. ac·ti·vat·ed, ac·ti·vat·ing, ac·ti·vates
1. To set in motion; make active or more active.
2. To organize or create (a military unit, for example): activate the National Guard.
3. To treat (sewage) with aeration and bacteria to aid decomposition.
4. Chemistry To accelerate a reaction in, as by heat.
5. Physics To make (a substance) radioactive.
6. Biology To convert (a molecule or cell) into a form that carries out a specific action: activate an enzyme; activate B cells.
ac′ti·vation n.
acti·va′tor n.
- generate
- generating station
- generation
- generational
- generationally
- generation gap
- Generation X
- Generation Xer
- Generation Y
- generative
- generative cell
- generative grammar
- generator
- generatrix
- generic
- generically
- genericity
- genericize
- genericness
- generosity
- generous
- generously
- generousness
- Genesee River
- -genesis