Depotentize

Quick meaning: Depotentize is a verb meaning To make less potent.

Meaning

To make less potent.

Example Sentences

This emphasis on the funerary interpretation has served only to depotentize Egyptian religion and to distort our understanding of ancient Egyptian religious sensibility.

People in a state of heat are not only dangerous to other people since they are contagious, they can also pass darkness or dirt on to cattle, and they can depotentize medicine and food.

It may act somewhat more decidedly upon this than upon the arterial, or rather it may tend to depotentize the arterial system in strict proportion as it may tend to cause a preponderance of the venous.

However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.

Word Forms

• depotentizes
• depotentizing
• depotentized
• depotentise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include depotentise, depotentiate, depotentialize, disintensify, mortify, depower.

Related Dictionary Tools