Definitions for actuate

actuate ac·tu·ate

Spelling: [ak-choo-eyt]
IPA: /ˈæk tʃuˌeɪt/

Actuate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in actuate (aacettu).

Definitions for actuate

verb (used with object)

  1. to incite or move to action; impel; motivate:
  2. to put into action; start a process; turn on:

Origin of actuate

1590-1600; Medieval Latin āctuāt(us) reduced to action (past participle of āctuāre), equivalent to Latin āctu(s) (see act) + -ātus -ate1

Examples for actuate

And this all believers should maintain and actuate in themselves.

Is their purpose to appeal to our understanding, and actuate our humanity?

He had never dared to actuate the "hired man," his father, on a basis of fact.

If thoughts do not actuate it, your distrustful fears and cares will vanish.

But he was perhaps equally void of those which actuate men to do evil.

There was not a shred of self interest to actuate them; there could not have been.

The bill covers not only pieces or controller records, but also the machines which they actuate.

In Fig. 213 the key is about to actuate the locking mechanism.

True it is there are many feelings that actuate me at this moment.

He was void of any of these feelings which actuate men to do good.

Word Value for actuate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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