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depotentiates

depotentiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depotentiate.

Meaning of depotentiate

Verb

depotentiate (third-person singular simple present depotentiates, present participle depotentiating, simple past and past participle depotentiated)

  1. To reduce the effect of a substance.
  2. To deprive of power
    • I would certainly be the very last to argue that organized religion has not been a major historic source of Gay oppression. […] However, what we see in the "Sisters," despite their contrary claim, is not a depotentiating of that oppression but, rather, men who stand with the oppressor by continuing...1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4

Questions about depotentiates

What is depotentiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Depotentiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of depotentiate.

Words near depotentiates in the dictionary

  1. depot
  2. depotentialization
  3. depotentialize
  4. depotentiate
  5. depotentiated
  6. depotentiates
  7. depotentiating
  8. depotentiation
  9. depotentiations
  10. depotentise
  11. depotentised

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Adapted from Wiktionary: depotentiates (page history and authors); depotentiate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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