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devitalize

[dee-vahyt-l-ahyz] / diˈvaɪt lˌaɪz /


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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

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)

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

To the next I owe a comprehension of the elastic touch, with devitalized muscles.

From Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers by Brower, Harriette

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

During the nineteenth century their control was absolute, and what we are today we have become through this dominance, coupled with the general devitalizing or abandonment of religion.

From Towards the Great Peace by Cram, Ralph Adams

There are many emotions that are harbored on occasions, which are devitalizing and destructive.

From Vitality Supreme by Macfadden, Bernarr

In fact, the war’s profoundly devitalizing effects upon the general population can hardly be overestimated.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop




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