Activated vs Reactivated - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between activated and reactivated

is that activated is past tense of activate while reactivated is past tense of reactivate.

(head)

(activate)

(activat)

To put into action, to put to work.

To turn on.

* actuate

* deactivate

(head)

(reactivate)

To activate again.