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re-activate

re-activate is the alternative form of reactivate.

Meaning of reactivate

Verb

reactivate (third-person singular simple present reactivates, present participle reactivating, simple past and past participle reactivated)

  1. To activate again.
    • Since the strike began, more than 2,400 performers have joined or reactivated their Cameo accounts.2023 August 27, Ramishah Maruf, “Celebrity video site sees a surge of actor sign-ups in the wake of the strike”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2023

Forms of re-activate

third-person singular presentre-activates
present participlere-activating
past participlere-activated
pastre-activated

Questions about re-activate

What is re-activate the alternative form of?
Re-activate is the alternative form of reactivate.

Words near re-activate in the dictionary

  1. re-accredited
  2. re-accrediting
  3. re-accredits
  4. re-accrue
  5. re-act
  6. re-activate
  7. re-activated
  8. re-activates
  9. re-activating
  10. re-adapt
  11. re-adapted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-activate (page history and authors); reactivate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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