REACTIVATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they reactivate ... he / she / it reactivates

Past simple: reactivated

Past participle: reactivated

-ing form: reactivating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Activate (an old file) anew

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "reactivate" is one way to...):

activate (make active or more active)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

Context examples:

Launched in March 2004, Rosetta was reactivated in January 2014 after a record 957 days in hibernation.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)

Virus integrated within host genome but inactive; may be reactivated by stress such as ultraviolet irradiation.

(Latent Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear-conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactivate memories at different times.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team of researchers not only improved on the amount of energy produced and stored, they managed to reactivate a process in the algae that has been dormant for millennia.

(Scientists pioneer a new way to turn sunlight into fuel, University of Cambridge)

This wide abundance encourages further investigations into how it can be activated in a controlled way, or reactivated or re-introduced into plants that currently have inactive Rider elements so that their trait diversification potential can be regained.

(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)

Kitamura and his team artificially reactivated memories in mice by using optogenetics, a technique that involves beaming light into their brains to control the activity of individual neurons by switching memories on or off.