activated
SayAK-ti-vayt-id/ˈæktɪˌveɪtɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of activate.
The motion sensor activated the floodlights as soon as we stepped onto the driveway.
Once the account was activated, users could log in immediately.
Note
A regular -ed form, so one spelling serves as both simple past and past participle. Every meaning of activate takes a direct object, so the past tense is normally followed by one. The participle does much of its work in the passive: an alarm, a molecule or a substance is activated, and by can name whatever did it. With have it forms the perfect: the switch had activated the pump.
activated is a form of activate
activate, verb: To put a device, mechanism, or system into action; to trigger or set off. Full entry
- Forms
- activateactivates he/she/itactivating -ing formactivated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- activate → activated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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