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
His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
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 Ward, Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson)
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
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
The creature is so devitalized; the dirt is so ingrained, so much a second nature, that a bath really isn't attractive.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
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
They discovered how tired they were, and the devitalizing heat added to the general torpor.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.
In one sense the sympathy quest was a devitalizing failure.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
He showed her the wrong invalidism thoughts, the unhappy, depressing, devitalizing attitude toward death.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.
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