potentiate vs enhance

potentiate and enhance both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
potentiate	No	No	Yes	No
enhance	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, enhance is a hypernym of potentiate; that is, enhance is a word with a broader meaning than potentiate:

potentiate: increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)
enhance: increase the level of

Other hypernyms of potentiate include heighten, raise.

potentiate (verb)	enhance (verb)
increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon)	increase the level of
	make better or more attractive