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overactivate

overactivate verb: to activate excessively.

Verb

overactivate (third-person singular simple present overactivates, present participle overactivating, simple past and past participle overactivated)

  1. To activate excessively
    • PTEN mutations can lead to PIP3 accumulation and as a result overactivate the AKT pathway [ 43, 44 ].2015 July 26, Shijie Ding et al., “Redox Regulation in Cancer Stem Cells”, in Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, volume 2015, →DOI

Forms of overactivate

third-person singular presentoveractivates
present participleoveractivating
past participleoveractivated
pastoveractivated

Origin of overactivate

From over- + activate.

Questions about overactivate

What does overactivate mean?
Overactivate means to activate excessively.
What part of speech is overactivate?
Overactivate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overactivate?
The past tense of overactivate is overactivated.

Words near overactivate in the dictionary

  1. overact
  2. overacted
  3. overacting
  4. overaction
  5. overactions
  6. overactivate
  7. overactivated
  8. overactivates
  9. overactivating
  10. overactivation
  11. overactivations

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