repolarizev.

1813 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 156 The chemical action effected by the discharge of the pile, consists in the particles in a combination being re-polarized.

1837 A. D. Bache Brewster's Treat. Optics (new ed.) App. vi. 85 The light is repolarized at the second refraction, and the effect of the plate is that of a single surface.

1881 Science 1 Oct. 466/2 First polarizing and then reducing the sample, and then repolarizing the residue.

1912 Bot. Gaz. 53 142 Others [sc. starch grains] repolarize the light to such a slight extent that they are very faint and the dark crosses are difficult to see.

1937 Rural Sociol. 2 121 Thereupon all my previous experience with farm life, with farm people, with villages, towns and cities was repolarized.

1992 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Sept. 83/2 Phosphorylation of these channels..reduces a component of the potassium current that normally repolarizes the action potential.

1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 9/1 The millions of abstainers..will now feel that politics has been repolarised for them, and they know which pole they are heading for.

1932 Jrnl. Cellular & Compar. Physiol. 1 178 Gerard argues that monophasicity results because the asphyxiated region of the nerve is completely depolarized, while a killed region, if supplied with oxygen, may partially repolarize to give a diphasic record.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. xxxiv. 884/1 Excitation has traversed the entire length of the strip, and the cells at the left have repolarized, or recovered their normal resting state.

2003 P. DiMaggio in J. Rieder Fractious Nation? iv. 95 Attitudes toward government assistance for members of minority groups, which had been converging until the mid-1980s, may have begun to repolarize thereafter.