All activate synonyms

verb activate

• trigger — a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
• mobilize — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• turn on — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• switch on — the act or process of switching on an ignition, light, appliance, etc.
• call up — If you call someone up, you telephone them.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
• propel — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• actuate — If a person is actuated by an emotion, that emotion makes them act in a certain way. If something actuates a device, the device starts working.
• impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
• stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
• set in motion — prompt, cause to begin
• set off — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• get going — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
• galvanise — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
• galvanize — to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
• initiate — to begin, set going, or originate: to initiate major social reforms.
• mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.