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radioactivate

radioactivate verb: to make something radioactive.

Verb

radioactivate (third-person singular simple present radioactivates, present participle radioactivating, simple past and past participle radioactivated)

  1. To make something radioactive.

Forms of radioactivate

third-person singular presentradioactivates
present participleradioactivating
past participleradioactivated
pastradioactivated

Origin of radioactivate

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

Questions about radioactivate

What does radioactivate mean?
Radioactivate means to make something radioactive.
What part of speech is radioactivate?
Radioactivate is a verb.
What is the past tense of radioactivate?
The past tense of radioactivate is radioactivated.

Words near radioactivate in the dictionary

  1. radioablation
  2. radioacoustics
  3. radioactinide
  4. radioactinides
  5. radioactinium
  6. radioactivate
  7. radioactivated
  8. radioactivates
  9. radioactivating
  10. radioactivation
  11. radioactivations

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