Activate
Activate verb - To cause to function.
To contact and activate are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To contact" with "Activate", this terms are similar.
To contact
Activate and to contact are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Activate" instead a verb phrase "To contact".
Both terms in one sentence
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There, the Mother Thing atempts an escape by setting up a beacon to contact her people, but seems to be fatally injured before she can activate the beacon.
- Quiet (due to her vocal cord parasites that would activate if she spoke English) attempted to contact Pequod in Navajo but he doesn't know the language.
Source: Heroic Sacrifice / Video Games
Cite this Source
To contact and Activate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/activate/to_contact
Activate & To contact. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/activate/to_contact>.
To contact or Activate. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/activate/to_contact.
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