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Word Meanings - ANTALKALINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of power to counteract alkalies.

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  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • COUNTERACT
    To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • COUNTERACTIVELY
    By counteraction.
  • COUNTERACTION
    Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.
  • POWER
    See FISH
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • IMPOWER
    See EMPOWER
  • POLICE POWER
    The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
  • DISEMPOWER
    To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
  • EMPOWER
    1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
  • UNPOWER
    Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
  • CONCERT OF THE POWERS
    An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
  • UNPOWERFUL
    Not powerful; weak. Cowley.
  • HORSE POWER
    . 1. The power which a horse exerts.
  • OVERPOWER
    To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. "And overpower'd that gallant few." Wordsworth. Syn. -- To overbear; overcome; vanquish; defeat; crush; overwhelm; overthrow; rout; conquer;
  • OUTPOWER
    To excel in power; to overpover. Fuller.
  • OVERPOWERING
    Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible. -- O`ver*pow"er*ing*ly, adv.

 

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