devitalize
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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
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
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
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
“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
To the next I owe a comprehension of the elastic touch, with devitalized muscles.
From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Harriette Brower
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
They discovered how tired they were, and the devitalizing heat added to the general torpor.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
It is true that some sickly teachers exert a powerful influence over their pupils, but in most instances their influence and their efficiency are due to powers that exist in spite of devitalizing elements.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
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