Crossword-Solution: ACTUATES 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Puts into motion 2 answers
Animates. 5 answers
Arouses. 10 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ACTUATES (5)

Should this enveloping force be interrupted in any direction a delicate instrument immediately apprehends the irregularity, at the same time imparting an impulse to a magnetic device which in turn actuates the steering mechanism, diverting the bow of the flier away from the obstacle until the craft’s radio-activity sphere is no longer in contact with the obstruction, then she falls once more into her normal course.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Should the disturbance approach from the rear, as in case of a faster-moving craft overhauling me, the mechanism actuates the speed control as well as the steering gear, and the flier shoots ahead and either up or down, as the oncoming vessel is upon a lower or higher plane than herself.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The population on that side is mostly Mexican, absolutely in sympathy with whatever actuates those on this side.
Desert Gold Zane Grey 1996
Vincent, "Sir Hyde Parker may mention the subject to you, I know not; for he is rich, and does not want it: nor is it, you will believe me, any desire to get a few hundred pounds that actuates me to address this letter to you; but justice to the brave officers and men who fought on that day.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Robert Southey 2006
Lastly, it follows from the foregoing proposition, that there is no small difference between the joy which actuates, say, a drunkard, and the joy possessed by a philosopher, as I just mention here by the way.
The Ethics [Part III] Benedict de Spinoza 1997

Quotes with ACTUATES (2)

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it. Thus, by paralyzing their Present, we beat The Adversary on His home turf. And loop after loop, the depressed haunt and harrow themselves, sometimes for years, when they have only, for a brief moment, to look away from themselves, to look up.
Geoffrey Wood
The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions.
George Murray Levick
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1947–2007).