devitalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
These shoots are useless, devitalize the vine, and hinder vineyard operations.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick
Its effect must have also been to devitalize the oxygen and nitrogen of the atmosphere.
From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward
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
Lashed by the phantom-scourge of a now passing era, the world of astronomers is in a state of terrorism, though of a highly attenuated, modernized, devitalized kind.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
After painting for several years, he found himself distressed by "the devitalizing isolation of the studio."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
One or more of these products are valuable as a laxative and the devitalizing after-effects of a drug cathartic will be absent.
From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden
This fact we admit; but as the effect is devitalizing, disorganizing and ultimately demoralizing, we consider the result the crowning shame rather than the crowning glory of Unitarianism.
From To Infidelity and Back by Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
Such an origin is, in fact, assigned to this disease in Africa, it being well established that certain devitalizing atmospheric influences produce skin diseases, and facilitate the appearance of pustular eruptions.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Robert Jennings
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