devitalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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This can devitalize the plant to the point of it starting to die back.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
So this latter phenomenon physicians use to devitalize cancerous growths-and on the ovaries to bring on artificial menopause.
From Time Magazine Archive
These shoots are useless, devitalize the vine, and hinder vineyard operations.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
She was a tennis-playing nutritionist with a master's in biochemistry who was a critic of processed, "devitalized" foods and advocated for vitamin supplements.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2023
Surgeons working on the case at UMC noted in the Sunday briefing that they had found only minimal amounts of "devitalized" brain matter and had already removed it.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 11, 2011
Giffords, a 40-year-old Democratic lawmaker, did not have severe bleeding in the brain nor large sections of devitalized brain tissue, Lemole said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2011
Lemole said that the amount of "devitalized" brain tissue that they removed was small.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2011
It is useless for a dull and devitalized teacher to exhort her pupils to wake up and take an interest.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
In the process thousands of hours of vital time were lost in conferences, argument and devitalizing hiatuses while heels and ardor cooled.
From Time Magazine Archive
After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio."
From Time Magazine Archive
Factory life had told on her physically, and the recent distress of mind added its devitalizing influence.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
He showed her the wrong invalidism thoughts, the unhappy, depressing, devitalizing attitude toward death.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
I have made another observation in protecting roots against devitalizing.
From Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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