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
His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.
From The Critical Game by John Albert Macy
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
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
She felt the cold upon her face; yet the air seemed devitalized by some exhausting voltage, she had known before.
From She Buildeth Her House by William Wistar Comfort
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
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 Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
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
On either side lay wet, poisonous ground covered with deadly growths and exuding fearful odors and devitalizing forces which even the heat could not dissipate.
From Life at High Tide by Henry Mills Alden
