actuate
verb (used with object)
has actuated
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present perfectof actuate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This was a paroxysm of that hate which, stronger than all my reason, has actuated me through life.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
The spirit that has actuated him and the nature of his achievement are expressed in the following lines.
From It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration by Joseph Morris
Phillis is by nature a conscientious woman; but nothing but the grace of God could have given her the constant and firm principle that has actuated her life.
From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman
Lady Florence Dixie frankly tells us her reason for venturing into Patagonia, and no doubt it is the reason which has actuated many of her sisters in their world-wanderings.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport Adams
You are noble and good, Code, and I know what has actuated you to say this to me.
From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage
