All actuate synonyms

verb actuate

• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• activate — If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.
• prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
• propel — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• animate — Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not.
• quicken — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
• incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
• instigate — to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel.
• induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
• rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
• spur — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• impel — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• 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.
• egg on — to incite or urge; encourage (usually followed by on).
• turn on — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• work up — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• fire up — start ignition of
• key up — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
• set in motion — prompt, cause to begin
• trigger — a small projecting tongue in a firearm that, when pressed by the finger, actuates the mechanism that discharges the weapon.
• start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
• get going — an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal: the get of a stallion.
• mobilise — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.