The Collaborative International Dictionary
Potentiating
Potentiate \Po*ten"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potentiated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Potentiating.]
To render active or potent.
--Coleridge.
Wiktionary
potentiating
vb. (present participle of potentiate English)
Usage examples of "potentiating".
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.