Potentiate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Potentiate \Po*ten"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Potentiated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Potentiating}.]
     To render active or potent. --Coleridge.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  potentiate
       v : increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug
           or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon);
           "potentiate the drug"