Meaning

1 senses

  1. To reduce the power of; to strip power from.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From de- + power.

From de- + power.

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Forms

depowers, depowering, depowered, depowered
Base formdepower · to depower
3rd person singulardepowers
Present participledepowering
Past simpledepowered
Past participledepowered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydepower
he, she, itdepowers

Past simpleLesson

all personsdepowered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave depowered
he, she, ithas depowered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill depower

Synonyms

3 synonyms
de-energizepower downpower off

Antonyms

3 antonyms
fire uppower onpower up

Word family

2 related words
Relateddisempower
Deriveddepowerable

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
depositB1depositiondepotdepravedepravityC2deprecateC2depreciate

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