HyperDic: potentiate

English > 1 sense of the word potentiate:
VERBchangepotentiateincrease the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
English > potentiate: 1 sense > verb 1, change
Meaningincrease the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon).
PatternSomething ----s something
Example"potentiate the drug"
CategorydrugA substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic
Broaderenhance, heighten, raiseincrease / increase
Nounspotentiation(medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously

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