potentiate

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  • Verb:
    increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)

Word Origin

potentiate (v.)
1817 (Coleridge) "endow with power," from Latin potentia "power, might, force" (see potential) + -ate (2) on model of German potenzieren. Related: Potentiated; potentiating; potentiation.

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