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effectivate

effectivate verb: to make effective.

Verb

effectivate (third-person singular simple present effectivates, present participle effectivating, simple past and past participle effectivated)

  1. (transitive) To make effective.
    • The main aim was to facilitate and effectivate information retrieval and update in all the institutions concerned.2013, R. R. O'Moore, B. Barber, P. L. Reichertz, Medical Informatics Europe 82
    • If, as Geddes explains, a woman does not "effectivate her sex," she would thus pass "from girlhood phase of Artemis to the grey hairs of Demeter. Hence again her way divides: at best to sisterhood and vice-motherhood," […]2003, Volker M. Welter, Iain Boyd Whyte, Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life, page 193
    Synonyms:
    effectivize

Synonyms of effectivate

Forms of effectivate

third-person singular presenteffectivates
present participleeffectivating
past participleeffectivated
pasteffectivated

Origin of effectivate

From effective + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Questions about effectivate

What does effectivate mean?
Effectivate means to make effective.
What part of speech is effectivate?
Effectivate is a verb.
What is the past tense of effectivate?
The past tense of effectivate is effectivated.

Words near effectivate in the dictionary

  1. effectible
  2. effecting
  3. effection
  4. effections
  5. effectism
  6. effectivate
  7. effectivated
  8. effectivates
  9. effectivating
  10. effective
  11. effective accelerationism

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