depotentiate

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ potentiate.

Verb

depotentiate (third-person singular simple present depotentiates, present participle depotentiating, simple past and past participle depotentiated)

1. (biochemistry) To reduce the effect of a substance.
2. 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.