REACTIVATED Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

reactivated

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past tense of reactivate

as in restarted

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Iceland is headed toward rejecting a referendum that would have restarted negotiations to join the European Union more than a decade after previous talks died, the national broadcaster reported Sunday.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
In May, Iran had already restarted some of its drone production during a six-week ceasefire, rapidly rebuilding military capabilities degraded by US-Israeli strikes, according to two sources familiar with US intelligence assessments.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of restarted

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Ezequiel ‘Wicked’ Romo reinvented Blythe Street as an enforcement arm for the Mexican Mafia, directing business and ordering murders from his prison cell.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Opposition movements, meanwhile, have consistently reinvented themselves.

— Duncan McCargo, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of reinvented

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Two decades later, Michael Bay resurrected the franchise with Transformers, the big-budget 2007 film and brought Cullen back as the voice of its main nonhuman character.

— Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
In September 2024, Sheeran resurrected a dormant $67 million settlement and included language that would peel off $10 million for the Hope Florida Foundation, the Herald/Times previously reported.

— Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of resurrected

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As revealed in a press release earlier this week, the Mac Mini and Mac Studio have been refreshed with the new M6 and M5 Ultra Apple Silicon chipsets.

— Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
But their work is less likely to become clichéd, because any stale fixations will always be rinsed and refreshed by the real.

— Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026

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