POTENTIATE

Definition: POTENTIATE

POTENTIATE

Transitive verb

1. To render active or potent.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Note: Potentiate \Po*ten"ti*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Potentiated; present participle verb or noun Potentiating.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: POTENTIATE

Domain	Definition
Health	A degree of synergism which causes the exposure of the organism to a harmful substance to worsen a disease already contracted. (references)
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Crosswords: POTENTIATE

English words defined with "POTENTIATE": Potentiated, Potentiating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "POTENTIATE": Adjuvants, Immunologic ♦ Chlormethiazole ♦ Fibroblast Growth Factor, Basic ♦ Interleukin-11 ♦ multihabituation, multiple addiction, multiple drug abuse ♦ panaddiction, Parasympathomimetics, Prescription drug abuse ♦ Radiation-Sensitizing Agents. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: POTENTIATE

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		However, coincident administration of agents known to potentiate neuromuscular blockade such as aminoglycosides, should be avoided. (references)
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Usage Frequency: POTENTIATE

"POTENTIATE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "POTENTIATE" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	60%	6	143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)	40%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: POTENTIATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
potentiate	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POTENTIATE

Language		Translations for "POTENTIATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fuqizoj (consolidate, fortify, reinforce, soup), forcoj (back, bake, brace and bit, cement, consolidate, cultivate, harden, increase the strength, invigorate, redouble, reinforce, strengthen, stretch, tighten, toughen). (various references)

Bulgarian		усилвам (amplify, augment, exacerbate, exalt, exasperate, fortify, heighten, increase, intensify, magnify, nurse, piece in, sharpen, stiffen, strengthen, swell, tone up, zip), правя възможен, придавам сила, придавам ефикасност. (various references)

Chinese		增强 (intensified, intensify, intensifying, Potentiated, Potentiating, reinforcement). (various references)

Hungarian		hatalmat ad. (various references)

Italian		potenziare (develop, strengthen). (various references)

Korean		가능하게 하십시�". (various references)

Pig Latin		otentiatepay

Portuguese		tornar possível, dotar de energia. (various references)

Russian		делать возможным (enable, make it possible). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		učiniti moćnim, omogućiti (enable). (various references)

Swedish		göra möjligt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: POTENTIATE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "POTENTIATE": potentiated, potentiates. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "POTENTIATE"

Words rhyming with "POTENTIATE" (pronounced 'Po*ten"ti*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POTENTIATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-o-p-t-t-t"
	-1 letter: potentate.
	-3 letters: antipot, patient, potteen, tonette.
	-4 letters: attent, notate, opiate, pantie, patent, patine, pattee, patten, pattie, petite, pineta, pointe, poteen, potent, tattie, teapot, teniae, tentie, teopan, tiptoe.
	-5 letters: atone, eaten, enate, entia, etape, inapt, inept, netop, oaten, opine, paeon, paint, panto, paten, patin, patio, petit, petti, petto, piano, pieta, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-o-p-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: potentiated, potentiates.
	+3 letters: teleportation.
	+4 letters: interpretation, potentialities, teleportations.
	+5 letters: anticompetitive, interpretations.
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