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Potentiate

To render active or potent.

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Enhance 76% connected

To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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Heighten 76% connected

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Active adjective · 78% connection

In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities;…

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Activity noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing varie…

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Animosity verb · 78% connection

Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

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Collimate verb · 78% connection

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, a…

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Crack noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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Crack cocaine noun · 78% connection

a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

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DES noun · 78% connection

a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

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Diethylstilbestrol noun · 78% connection

a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

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Diethylstilboestrol noun · 78% connection

a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry

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Exert verb · 78% connection

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as,…

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Globefish noun · 78% connection

any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain…

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Hyoscyamine noun · 78% connection

a poisonous crystalline alkaloid (isometric with atropine but more potent); used to treat excess motility of the gastrointestinal tract

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Impotent adjective · 78% connection

Not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; we…

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Impregnate verb · 78% connection

To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

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Inactive adjective · 78% connection

Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of cer…

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Inflential adjective · 78% connection

Exerting or possessing influence or power; potent; efficacious; effective; strong; having authority or ascendency; as, an influential…

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Invalidate verb · 78% connection

To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, t…

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Overpotent adjective · 78% connection

Too potent or powerful.

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