What does depotentize mean?
Depotentize means To make less potent..
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To make less potent..
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.
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.
This emphasis on the funerary interpretation has served only to depotentize Egyptian religion and to distort our understanding of ancient Egyptian religious sensibility.
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.
Use depotentize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Depotentize means To make less potent..
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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.
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