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 Hedrick, U. P.
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 Macy, John Albert
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
“A vast, flocculent cloud darkened and devitalized the city, mimicking the family mood like weather does in memories.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2019
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
Asa Arnold sat through it all, still as one devitalized; an expression on his face no man had ever seen before; one hopeless, lonely, akin to that of the woman.
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
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
We receive the cast off with open arms and he comes to us with his devitalizing power.
From Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
In my opinion, this respect for and attempt to please this grossly ignorant French public is and has been one of the great devitalizing influences which hamper the French composer.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
There are many emotions that are harbored on occasions, which are devitalizing and destructive.
From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr
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