potentiate
po·ten·tiate
verb
1.
increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
- “potentiate the drug”
Origin
From potent + -i- + -ate (verb-forming suffix), modelled after German potenzieren.
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