The Collaborative International Dictionary
Depolarize \De*po"lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depolarized; p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing.] [Pref. de- + polarize: cf. F. d['e]polarizer.]
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(Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
Note: This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of polarization, which previously to the change was intercepted by the analyzer.
(Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: depolarize)
Usage examples of "depolarized".
The membrane is not merely depolarized, it is actually very slightly polarized in the opposite direction.
Since this happens at every point where the membrane is depolarized, there is a wave of repolarization following behind the wave of depolarization.
As the bloodstream sped the drug throughout the body, the motor and end plates of the muscles became depolarized, and total paralysis of the skeletal muscles occurred.
If only the whole mass could be depolarized to stop all electrical activity, then the intrinsic rhythm could possibly begin again.