depower

English

Etymology

de- + power

Verb

depower (third-person singular simple present depowers, present participle depowering, simple past and past participle depowered)

  1. (transitive) To reduce the power of; to strip power from.

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  • disempower (morphologically similar but (by idiomatic accident) refers semantically only to social power, not electrical power)

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