depotentiate
verbEtymology From de- + potentiate.
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Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To reduce the effect of a substance.
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To deprive of power
- I would certainly be the very last to argue that organized religion has not been a major historic source of Gay oppression. […] However, what we see in the "Sisters," despite their contrary claim, is not a depotentiating of that oppression but, rather, men who stand with the oppressor by continuing to oppress women and transpersons by trivialization.1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4: