Depower
/diːˈpaʊər/noun
To remove power from someone or something, or to make less powerful.
Did you know?Depower is a transparent modern formation built from the prefix de- (“remove, reverse”) plus power, and its force comes from the same Latin root that gave English potent, potentate, and impotent.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*poti-
“master, lord, one who has power”
Latin
Latin
potis
“able, powerful”
Latin
Latin
potentia
“power, ability”
Old French
Old French
poeir / poer
“power, ability”
Middle English
English
power
“strength, authority, ability”
Modern English
English
depower
“to remove power from”