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Activate vs Enkindle - What's the difference?

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Activate is a related term of enkindle.


As verbs the difference between activate and enkindle

is that activate is to put into action, to put to work while enkindle is to kindle; to arouse or evoke.

activate

English

Verb

(activat)
  • To put into action, to put to work.
  • To turn on.

    • Synonyms

    * actuate

    Antonyms

    * deactivate

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs

    enkindle

    English

    Verb

    (enkindl)
  • To kindle; to arouse or evoke.
  • * 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act 1, Scene 3:
    • That, trusted home, might yet enkindle you unto the crown, besides the Thane of Cawdor.
  • * 1809, Philip Freneau, "Occasioned By a Legislation Bill proposing a Taxation upon Newspapers":
    • "By them enkindled , every heart grew warm, / "By them excited, all were taught to arm,