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
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
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
That the difference in forces manifested is the resistance offered by the difference in the consistence of devitalized fluids which the nerves and fibers of the fascia labor to excrete.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
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 Ralph Adams Cram
This lays a considerable responsibility on those who choose psalms and hymns for congregational singing; for these can as easily be the instruments of fanatical melancholy and devitalizing, as of charitable life-giving and constructive ideas.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
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
