Crossword clues for potentiate
potentiate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potentiate \Po*ten"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potentiated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Potentiating.]
To render active or potent.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817 (Coleridge) "endow with power," from Latin potentia "power, might, force" (see potential) + -ate (2) on model of German potenzieren. Related: Potentiated; potentiating; potentiation.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To endow with power 2 To enhance 3 To increase the potency (of a drug or biochemical agent)
WordNet
v. increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate the drug"
Usage examples of "potentiate".
Sometimes lunchtime lasted longer than expected - aberrant bad trips had been known to last four or five days - and unlike LSD, its effects were potentiated - intensified - by the administration of Thorazine and other phenothiazine tranquillisers.
It could be that in them, parental emotions are potentiated by close association with the offspring, and in most human societies the mother enjoys more of this than the father does.
The colloidal suspension, the deity stirred from a dry powder to a potentiated liquid, was still asserting its hold on his central nervous system.
If she has been protected from the harsher things in life or if he suffers from excessive amourpropre-as most males do-it is at least as effective as pain, and potentiates either with pain or with other humiliations.
It stimulates the central nervous system by potentiating the effects of norepinephrine, a neurohormone which activates parts of the sympathetic nervous system.
Tashkin feels there is no danger for anyone to worry about potentiating emphysema "in any way" by the use of marijuana totally the opposite of tobacco.
But since we haven’t found anything here, we have to assume that whatever device has initiated, or is potentiating this effect, it’s got to be somewhere else.