In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We should like factories to betitivated, brought up to date, and re-modelled.
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People have unsuspectingly been eating meat that they thought was of the best, only to find that it wastitivatedto be the more readily sold.
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