depotentize
depotentize verb: to make less potent.
Verb
depotentize (third-person singular simple present depotentizes, present participle depotentizing, simple past and past participle depotentized)
- To make less potent.
- It may act somewhat more decidedly upon this than upon the arterial, or rather it may tend to depotentize the arterial system in strict proportion as it may tend to cause a preponderance of the venous.1868, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, Frederick Greenwood Snelling, Hull's Jahr: A New Manual of Homoeopathic Practice
- People in a state of heat are not only dangerous to other people since they are contagious, they can also pass darkness or dirt on to cattle, and they can depotentize medicine and food.2000, Edward C. Green, Indigenous Theories of Contagious Disease, page 79
Forms of depotentize
| third-person singular present | depotentizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | depotentizing |
| past participle | depotentized |
| past | depotentized |
| alternative form | depotentise |
Origin of depotentize
From de- + potent + -ize.
Questions about depotentize
- What does depotentize mean?
- Depotentize means to make less potent.
- What part of speech is depotentize?
- Depotentize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of depotentize?
- The past tense of depotentize is depotentized.
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