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  • verb Present participle of depolarize.

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Examples

  • -- I don't know what you mean by "depolarizing" an idea, -- said the divinity-student.

    The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • -- I don't know what you mean by "depolarizing" an idea, -- said the divinity-student.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

    More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

  • This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

    More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

  • Daptomycin, though, bound to the outside of the wall, changing the chemical gradients across it and depolarizing it.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • Daptomycin, though, bound to the outside of the wall, changing the chemical gradients across it and depolarizing it.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • This is a quick-acting, depolarizing, paralytic drug that, by rendering Mabhouh incapable of resisting, could account for the lack of bruise marks on the body.

    More Questions About the Dubai Assassination Edward Jay Epstein 2010

  • Daptomycin, though, bound to the outside of the wall, changing the chemical gradients across it and depolarizing it.

    SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010

  • In the long run, with prestige its only source of authority, this panel might serve as a depolarizing and depoliticizing force to counterbalance the sound bites and diatribes that have come to dominate the discussion of bioethical issues within existing political institutions.

    Jacob M. Appel: A "Supreme Court" for Bioethics? 2009

  • Then a triple intravenous dose of a non-depolarizing neuromuscular muscle relaxant is given, such as 20 mg pancuronium bromide (Pavulon) (NOTE-the second drug, the paralytic, in human lethal injection) or 20 mg vecuronium bromide (Norcuron).

    Seattle Human Rights Film Festival | Seattle Metblogs 2009

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