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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reactivate
verb
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▪ He was unimpressed by suggestions that it would be sufficient if Britain could reactivate the base in certain emergencies.
▪ I reactivated the potentially offending pieces of software, one by one, waiting until the problem reappeared.
▪ It will be much easier to reactivate the application of an unsuccessful candidate who has been let down gently.
▪ My previous attempts at getting rid of them had had the effect of reactivating them.
▪ Scientists are now exploring ways of limiting this, including reactivating disused sewage seepage fields in the area.
▪ The fundamentalist opposition movements that extol the veil are reactivating this age-old connection.
▪ Unbeknownst to Wiener, he was not the first modern scientist to reactivate this word.
▪ What if you forget to flip the switch reactivating the air bags and then hit another car head on?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reactivate

1902, from re- "back, again" + activate. Related: Reactivated; reactivating; reactivation.

Wiktionary
reactivate

vb. To activate again.

WordNet
reactivate

v. activate (an old file) anew

Usage examples of "reactivate".

I cycled back to Ket, replaced the hoobit and pulled on my skirt in a breathless contorted struggle that would have been amusing under other circumstances, and reactivated the sensors.

If she reactivated the Morphi, she would be betraying the Selenes and would have to answer for it.

Not to mention the fact that Scalene could round up a few of his goblin buddies and reactivate the triad.

Neurons in the network would become activated and reactivated by corresponding pitch values, and their activity would decay slowly.

Wagner team was reactivated, had created another cybernetically enhanced individual, I broke through their fire walls and security system and finally downloaded your file.

Apparently last night Drayton was able to reactivate the enthrallment spells and order them to return to Brentford Abbey.

She reactivated her computer console and resumed work on the geochemical data for the individual planets.

Step by step we restored Darla, reactivating her antitampering mechanisms and safeties.

I remember it because Wisconsin had been the last one of the battlewagons to be reactivated, and yet it was the first one to go back into mothballs after Desert Storm.

Laura too had wearied of the worry, and s he still had to tell Jake that Intel had reactivated her as a communications consultant on Operation Shadowpoint.

Jake reported the photograph, you were recalled to military active duty and permanently reactivated in Intel as an expert communications operative.

As before, a single life crystal reactivated the entire complex as well as raising the Eye above the mountains of the central island.

When Samantha had gone, Melissa closed the door and reactivated the alarm system.

The former reported that Greene was off net, and volunteered to forward a voicemail message when he reactivated his service.

As the drug enters the amnionic corridor it will start to urge you back through spinal and archaeopsychic time, reactivating in your mind screen the changing landscapes of your subconscious past, each reflecting its own distinct emotional terrain.