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Verb: potentiate  pu'ten-shee`eyt
  1. Increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
    "potentiate the drug"

Derived forms: potentiating, potentiated, potentiates

See also: potentiation

Type of: enhance, heighten, raise