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Synonyms for potent

having great physical strength

having a high concentration of the distinguishing ingredient

having or able to exert great power

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having great influence

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having or wielding force or authority

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having a strong physiological or chemical effect

(of a male) capable of copulation

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Its spell, however, was still potent, and kept the scaffold awful where the poor minister had died, and likewise the cottage by the sea-shore where Hester Prynne had dwelt.
"He will sacrifice all to his long-framed resolves," she said: "natural affection and feelings more potent still.
For," said he, "as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labour under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.
The weaker States or confederacies would first have recourse to them, to put themselves upon an equality with their more potent neighbors.
All that was potent for evil in bird or beast, or even in fish.
His potent spirit became immediately so wholly my "control," as the mediums say, that my poems might as well have been communications from him so far as any authority of my own was concerned; and they were quite like other inspirations from the other world in being so inferior to the work of the spirit before it had the misfortune to be disembodied and obliged to use a medium.
So, by uttering a few potent words and making a peculiar gesture, she quickly transformed the girl into her proper shape, while at the same time old Mombi, far away in Jinjur's palace, suddenly resumed her own crooked form and evil features.
Washington, Dec 24 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have found why analgesic drug treatment is usually less potent in females than males.
The team in Japan found six compounds similar to EGCG strength in defusing dioxin--three slightly more potent and the others slightly less potent.
The new catalyst, however, costs one-thousandth as much as platinum, can be used at low reaction temperatures, and does not produce the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Seattle Genetics intends to evaluate the highly potent, synthetic drugs as product candidates on their own as well as to utilize them in its antibody-drug conjugate program.
Religion is a potent force in the modern world and wields incredible influence in some countries.
M2 PHARMA-October 2, 2017-Spectrum Pharmaceuticals' Poziotinib Has Selective Activity Against EGFR Exon 20 Mutations and Potent Activity in Cell Lines, PDX, and GEM Models
(LSE: OKYO) is seeing potent anti-inflammatory activity of OK-113, an in-house discovered proprietary agonist of Chemerin GPCR, in an experimental model of DED in mice, the company said.