What are the opposite words for activate?
The word "activate" means to make something or someone active, functional or operational. Some antonyms for activate are: deactivate, disable, and turn off. Deactivate means to make something or someone inactive or nonfunctional. For example, when you turn off your mobile phone, you deactivate it. Disable means to impair or make something or someone unable to perform its intended function. For example, when you break your leg, you may become disabled. Finally, turn off means to shut down or stop an operation or function, for instance, turning off a computer or a light switch. These antonyms of activate are helpful in building the vocabulary as well as in various contexts to describe a situation.
- change
-
weary
- take it out of,
- cause ennui,
- caused ennui,
- causes ennui,
- causing ennui,
- grew tired,
- grow tired,
- growing tired,
- grows tired,
- had had enough,
- haddest had enough,
- hadst had enough,
- has had enough,
- hast had enough,
- hath had enough,
- have had enough,
- having had enough,
- leave cold,
- leave one cold,
- leaved cold,
- leaved one cold,
- leaves cold,
- leaves one cold,
- leaving cold,
- leaving one cold,
- left cold,
- left one cold,
- lose interest,
- loses interest,
- losing interest,
- lost interest,
- made discontented,
- make discontented,
- makes discontented,
- making discontented,
- take out of,
- takes it out of,
- takes out of,
- taking it out of,
- taking out of,
- took it out of,
- took out of,
- tried patience of,
- tried the patience of,
- tries patience of,
- tries the patience of,
- try patience of,
- try the patience of,
- trying patience of,
- trying the patience of.
-
depress
- beat down,
- cast down,
- Damped,
- Damping,
- Dulling,
- dulls,
- DAMPS,
- keep under,
- bum out,
- beating down,
- beats down,
- bummed out,
- bumming out,
- bums out,
- casting down,
- casts down,
- co wed,
- co wing,
- co-wed,
- co-wing,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de grade,
- de graded,
- de grades,
- de grading,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de solate,
- de solated,
- de solates,
- de solating,
- de vitalize,
- de vitalized,
- de vitalizes,
- de vitalizing,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-grade,
- de-graded,
- de-grades,
- de-grading,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- de-solate,
- de-solated,
- de-solates,
- de-solating,
- de-vitalize,
- de-vitalized,
- de-vitalizes,
- de-vitalizing,
- dis courage,
- dis courages,
- dis hearten,
- dis heartened,
- dis heartening,
- dis heartens,
- dis may,
- dis mayed,
- dis maying,
- dis mays,
- dis tress,
- dis tressed,
- dis tresses,
- dis-courage,
- dis-courages,
- dis-hearten,
- dis-heartened,
- dis-heartening,
- dis-heartens,
- dis-may,
- dis-mayed,
- dis-maying,
- dis-mays,
- dis-tress,
- dis-tressed,
- dis-tresses,
- keeping under,
- keeps under,
- kept under,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- reduce tears,
- reduce to tears,
- reduced to tears,
- reduces to tears,
- reducing tears,
- reducing to tears,
- threw cold water on,
- throwing cold water on,
- throws cold water on,
- turned one off,
- turning one off,
- turns one off,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting.
-
rest
- be quiet,
- bottomed,
- drowse,
- drowsing,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- lay down,
- lie down,
- slack off,
- slumbering,
- stretch out,
- stretched out,
- take five,
- take ten,
- unbend,
- unbent,
- unlax,
- Bottoming,
- Drowsed,
- Idled,
- Roosted,
- Roosting,
- Slumbered,
- sit down,
- unbends,
- compose oneself,
- lying down,
- wind down,
- slacking off,
- take a nap,
- lie by,
- am at ease,
- am based,
- am comfortable,
- am contingent,
- am dependent,
- am ease,
- am quiet,
- am seated on,
- am supported,
- am upheld,
- are at ease,
- are based,
- are comfortable,
- are contingent,
- are dependent,
- are ease,
- are founded,
- are quiet,
- are seated on,
- are supported,
- are upheld,
- art at ease,
- art based,
- art comfortable,
- art contingent,
- art dependent,
- art founded,
- art quiet,
- art seated on,
- art supported,
- art upheld,
- be at ease,
- be based,
- be comfortable,
- be contingent,
- be dependent,
- be ease,
- be founded,
- be seated on,
- be supported,
- be upheld,
- being at ease,
- being based,
- being comfortable,
- being contingent,
- being dependent,
- being ease,
- being founded,
- being quiet,
- being seated on,
- being supported,
- being upheld,
- composed oneself,
- composes oneself,
- composing oneself,
- drowses,
- eased off,
- eased up,
- eases off,
- eases up,
- easing off,
- easing up,
- is at ease,
- is based,
- is comfortable,
- is dependent,
- is ease,
- is founded,
- is seated on,
- is supported,
- lie still,
- lay by,
- lay still,
- lied by,
- lied down,
- lied still,
- lies by,
- lies down,
- lies still,
- lying by,
- lying still,
- put feet up,
- puts feet up,
- putting feet up,
- re cline,
- re clines,
- re lax,
- re lying,
- re pose,
- re posed,
- re side,
- re sided,
- re sides,
- re siding,
- re sting,
- re-cline,
- re-clines,
- re-lax,
- re-lied,
- re-lying,
- re-pose,
- re-posed,
- re-side,
- re-sided,
- re-sides,
- re-siding,
- re-sting,
- refresh oneself,
- refreshed oneself,
- refreshes oneself,
- refreshing oneself,
- sat down,
- sate down,
- sits down,
- sitting down,
- slacked off,
- slacks off,
- stands still,
- stood still,
- stretching out,
- take a break,
- take easy,
- take life easy,
- take nap,
- take time out,
- takes a break,
- takes a nap,
- takes break,
- takes easy,
- takes five,
- takes it easy,
- takes life easy,
- takes nap,
- takes time out,
- taking a break,
- taking a nap,
- taking break,
- taking easy,
- taking five,
- taking it easy,
- taking life easy,
- taking nap,
- taking ten,
- taking time out,
- took a break,
- took a nap,
- took break,
- took five,
- took it easy,
- took life easy,
- took nap,
- took ten,
- took time out,
- un bend,
- un bended,
- un bending,
- un bends,
- un bent,
- un lax,
- un wind,
- un winding,
- un winds,
- un wound,
- un-bend,
- un-bended,
- un-bending,
- un-bends,
- un-bent,
- un-lax,
- un-wind,
- un-winding,
- un-winds,
- un-wound,
- unbended,
- unlaxed,
- unlaxes,
- unlaxing,
- was at ease,
- was based,
- was comfortable,
- was contingent,
- was dependent,
- was ease,
- was founded,
- was quiet,
- was seated on,
- was supported,
- was upheld,
- wast at ease,
- wast based,
- wast comfortable,
- wast contingent,
- wast dependent,
- wast ease,
- wast founded,
- wast seated on,
- wast supported,
- wast upheld,
- were at ease,
- were comfortable,
- were contingent,
- were dependent,
- were ease,
- were founded,
- were quiet,
- were seated on,
- were supported,
- wert at ease,
- wert based,
- wert comfortable,
- wert contingent,
- wert dependent,
- wert ease,
- wert founded,
- wert quiet,
- wert seated on,
- wert supported,
- wert upheld,
- winded down,
- winding down,
- winds down,
- wound down.
- enervate
-
weaken
- slow down,
- thin out,
- losing spirit,
- slowed down,
- slowing down,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- in validate,
- in validated,
- in validates,
- in validating,
- in-validate,
- in-validated,
- in-validates,
- in-validating,
- lose spirit,
- loses spirit,
- lost spirit,
- re lapse,
- re lapsed,
- re lapses,
- re lapsing,
- re-lapse,
- re-lapsed,
- re-lapses,
- re-lapsing,
- slows down,
- thinned out,
- thinning out,
- thins out,
- under mined,
- under mining,
- under-mined,
- under-mining.
-
fatigue
- bedraggle,
- bushing,
- fag,
- fagged,
- jade,
- overtire,
- tucker,
- Bedraggling,
- Fagging,
- tuckers,
- tuckering,
- FAGS,
- overtired,
- overtires,
- be draggle,
- be draggled,
- be draggles,
- be draggling,
- be-draggle,
- be-draggled,
- be-draggles,
- be-draggling,
- bedraggles,
- over tire,
- over tired,
- over tires,
- over tiring,
- over-tire,
- over-tired,
- over-tires,
- over-tiring.
-
burden
- tax.
- overdo
- overwork
- try
-
wear
- use up,
- using up,
- wash away,
- wear thin,
- get the better of,
- washing away,
- be worthless,
- am worthless,
- are worthless,
- art worthless,
- became threadbare,
- became worn,
- become threadbare,
- become worn,
- becomes threadbare,
- becomes worn,
- becoming threadbare,
- becoming worn,
- being worthless,
- gat better of,
- gat the better of,
- get better of,
- gets better of,
- gets the better of,
- getting the better of,
- got better of,
- got the better of,
- gotten better of,
- gotten the better of,
- is worthless,
- scrape off,
- scraped off,
- scrapes off,
- scraping off,
- used up,
- uses up,
- was worthless,
- washed away,
- wast worthless,
- wearing thin,
- wears thin,
- were worthless,
- wore thin.
-
arrest
- stall,
- suppress,
- Gaffed,
- Gaffing,
- Preventing,
- Suppressing,
- hinders,
- inhibits,
- gloms,
- glommed,
- gaffs,
- tabbed,
- tabbing,
- take prisoner,
- de lay,
- de laying,
- de lays,
- de tain,
- de tains,
- de-lay,
- de-laying,
- de-lays,
- de-tain,
- de-tains,
- pre vent,
- pre venting,
- pre vents,
- pre-vent,
- pre-vented,
- pre-venting,
- pre-vents,
- put arm on,
- put cuffs on,
- put the cuffs on,
- puts arm on,
- puts cuffs on,
- puts the arm on,
- puts the cuffs on,
- putting arm on,
- putting cuffs on,
- putting the arm on,
- putting the cuffs on,
- re strain,
- re strained,
- re straining,
- re strains,
- re strict,
- re-strain,
- re-strained,
- re-straining,
- re-strains,
- re-strict,
- taking prisoner,
- took prisoner,
- toss jail,
- tossed in jail,
- tossed jail,
- tosses in jail,
- tosses jail,
- tossing in jail,
- tossing jail,
- tost in jail,
- tost jail.
- badger
-
collapse
- cave in,
- conk out,
- give out,
- give way,
- fell down,
- falling down,
- belly up,
- conked out,
- caving in,
- giving way,
- bellied up,
- bellies up,
- bellying up,
- caved in,
- caves in,
- conking out,
- conks out,
- dis integrate,
- dis integrated,
- dis integrates,
- dis integrating,
- dis-integrate,
- dis-integrated,
- dis-integrates,
- dis-integrating,
- flaked out,
- flakes out,
- flaking out,
- gave way,
- go pieces,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub-sides,
- top pled.
-
harass
- get to,
- work on,
- Deviled,
- Devilled,
- Deviling,
- Devilling,
- jerk around,
- worked on,
- be devil,
- be deviled,
- be deviling,
- be devilled,
- be devilling,
- be devils,
- be leaguer,
- be leaguered,
- be leaguering,
- be leaguers,
- be-devil,
- be-deviled,
- be-deviling,
- be-devilled,
- be-devilling,
- be-devils,
- be-leaguer,
- be-leaguered,
- be-leaguering,
- be-leaguers,
- de spoil,
- de spoiled,
- de spoiling,
- de spoils,
- de-spoil,
- de-spoiled,
- de-spoiling,
- de-spoils,
- ex asperate,
- ex asperates,
- ex asperating,
- ex-asperate,
- ex-asperated,
- ex-asperates,
- ex-asperating,
- forayed,
- gat to,
- gave a bad time,
- gave a hard time,
- gets to,
- getting to,
- give a bad time,
- give bad time,
- give hard time,
- gives a bad time,
- gives a hard time,
- gives bad time,
- gives hard time,
- giving a bad time,
- giving hard time,
- got to,
- gotten to,
- jerked around,
- jerking around,
- jerks around,
- noodge,
- noodges,
- noodging,
- rattle cage,
- rattle one cage,
- rattle one's cage,
- rattle ones cage,
- rattled cage,
- rattled one cage,
- rattled one's cage,
- rattles cage,
- rattles one cage,
- rattles one's cage,
- rattles ones cage,
- rattling cage,
- rattling one's cage,
- rattling ones cage,
- working on,
- works on,
- wrought on.
-
prostrate
- knock over,
- tucker out,
- whelm,
- Whelmed,
- Whelming,
- bring low,
- bringing low,
- brings low,
- brought low,
- de feat,
- de feats,
- de stroy,
- de stroyed,
- de stroying,
- de stroys,
- de-feat,
- de-feats,
- de-stroy,
- de-stroyed,
- de-stroying,
- de-stroys,
- dis armed,
- dis arming,
- dis arms,
- dis-armed,
- dis-arming,
- dis-arms,
- knocked over,
- knocking over,
- knocks over,
- over come,
- over comes,
- over coming,
- over powered,
- over powering,
- over powers,
- over throw,
- over throwing,
- over thrown,
- over throws,
- over turn,
- over turning,
- over turns,
- over-comes,
- over-coming,
- over-power,
- over-powered,
- over-powering,
- over-throw,
- over-throwing,
- over-thrown,
- over-throws,
- over-turn,
- over-turning,
- tuckering out,
- tuckers out,
- whelms.
-
tax
- overtax,
- saddled,
- weighted,
- weighting,
- Saddling,
- overtaxed,
- overtaxing,
- overuses,
- over-burden,
- over-burdening,
- over-burdened,
- made demands on,
- make demands on,
- makes demands on,
- making demands on,
- over burden,
- over burdened,
- over burdening,
- over burdens,
- over tax,
- over taxes,
- over taxing,
- over used,
- over using,
- over-tax,
- over-taxed,
- over-taxes,
- over-taxing,
- over-used,
- over-using,
- overtaxes,
- press hard on,
- pressed hard on,
- presses hard on,
- pressing hard on,
- put pressure on,
- puts pressure on,
- weigh heavily on,
- weighing heavily on,
- weighs heavily on.
-
tire
- overstrain,
- put to sleep,
- tire,
- Overstrained,
- Overstraining,
- puts to sleep,
- putting to sleep,
- overstrains,
- dis gust,
- dis gusted,
- dis gusting,
- dis gusts,
- dis please,
- dis pleased,
- dis pleases,
- dis pleasing,
- dis-gust,
- dis-gusted,
- dis-gusting,
- dis-gusts,
- dis-please,
- dis-pleased,
- dis-pleases,
- dis-pleasing,
- ennuied,
- ennuiing,
- go stale,
- goes stale,
- going stale,
- grew weary,
- grow weary,
- growing weary,
- grows weary,
- over strain,
- over strained,
- over straining,
- over strains,
- over-strain,
- over-strained,
- over-straining,
- over-strains,
- put sleep,
- puts sleep,
- putting sleep,
- went stale.
-
vegetate
- Vegetated,
- go to pot,
- going to pot,
- are inert,
- art inert,
- be inert,
- being inert,
- de cay,
- de cays,
- de-cay,
- de-cays,
- go pot,
- go seed,
- go to seed,
- goes pot,
- goes seed,
- goes to pot,
- goes to seed,
- going pot,
- going seed,
- going to seed,
- is inert,
- pass time,
- passed time,
- passes time,
- passing time,
- was inert,
- wast inert,
- went pot,
- went seed,
- went to pot,
- went to seed,
- were inert,
- wert inert.
- initiate something; start a function
- take into authorized custody
- fall apart, break down
- deject, make despondent; exhaust
- tire, wear out
- overwhelm; wear out
-
be calm; sleep
- rest.
-
bother, afflict
- try.
- be very passive
- reduce the strength of
-
corrode, use
- wear.
- make tired
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
bi lateral
- Antonyms:
- multilateral, unilateral, detached.
