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English
Etymology
From de- + potentiate.
Verb
depotentiate (third-person singular simple present depotentiates, present participle depotentiating, simple past and past participle depotentiated)
- (biochemistry) To reduce the effect of a substance.
- To deprive of power
1982 April 10, Mikhael Iktin, “Over-indulgence”, in Gay Community News, page 4: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.