potentiating
Making more powerful
Potentiating is making something more powerful or effective, especially in combination with another agent.
The term appears most often in pharmacology, where one drug potentiates another by amplifying its effects: Grapefruit juice potentiates certain medications.
More broadly, factors can potentiate outcomes: Sleep deprivation potentiates anxiety.
Causing to activate
- stimulatingArousing interest or energy
- inducingCausing or bringing about
- initiatingCausing to start
- catalyzingSpeeding a reaction
sparking · awakening · energizing · provoking · arousing · galvanizing · kindling · prompting
Increasing in strength
- magnifyingIncreasing perceived size
- enhancingIncreasing quality or value
- boostingIncreasing force or level
- strengtheningIncreasing power or solidity
augmenting · heightening · escalating · reinforcing · increasing · multiplying · compounding · deepening
Making something feasible
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
- strengtheningIncreasing power or solidity
- equippingProviding necessary tools
- preparingMaking ready beforehand
arming · readying · positioning · priming · conditioning · cultivating · developing · nurturing
Combined effect exceeding individual contributions
- drug interactionSubstances altering each other's effects
- adjuvantImmunity-boosting additive
- combination therapyUsing multiple treatments together
- enhancementIncrease in quality
bioavailability · sensitization · dosage · therapeutic effect · efficacy · receptor · agonist · modulation
Mutually supplying lacks
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- multiplicativeInvolving multiplication operations
- combinatorialOf arrangement counting
- interactiveAllowing mutual exchange
interdependent · additive · concurrent · symbiotic · collaborative · convergent · coordinated · integrated
triggering
Causing to activate
- stimulatingArousing interest or energy
- inducingCausing or bringing about
- initiatingCausing to start
catalyzing · sparking · awakening · energizing · provoking · arousing · galvanizing · kindling · prompting · mobilizing
intensifying
Increasing in strength
- magnifyingIncreasing perceived size
- enhancingIncreasing quality or value
- boostingIncreasing force or level
strengthening · augmenting · heightening · escalating · reinforcing · increasing · multiplying · compounding · deepening · maximizing
enabling
Making something feasible
- facilitatingMaking something simpler
- strengtheningIncreasing power or solidity
- equippingProviding necessary tools
preparing · arming · readying · positioning · priming · conditioning · cultivating · developing · nurturing · fostering
synergism
Combined effect exceeding individual contributions
- drug interactionSubstances altering each other's effects
- adjuvantImmunity-boosting additive
- combination therapyUsing multiple treatments together
enhancement · bioavailability · sensitization · dosage · therapeutic effect · efficacy · receptor · agonist · modulation · contraindication
complementary
Mutually supplying lacks
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- multiplicativeInvolving multiplication operations
- combinatorialOf arrangement counting
interactive · interdependent · additive · concurrent · symbiotic · collaborative · convergent · coordinated · integrated · compounding
potentiatingdiminishing
Becoming progressively less
weakening · attenuating · reducing · lessening · dampening
potentiatinginhibiting
Preventing or slowing action
blocking · antagonizing · preventing · impeding · obstructing