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 Macy, John Albert
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
These shoots are useless, devitalize the vine, and hinder vineyard operations.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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 danger is greatest with trees which have grown late or those which have become devitalized for some reason or with those which are in poorly drained soils.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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
The utility of arsenious acid for devitalizing the dental pulp was discovered by J. R. Spooner of Montreal, and first published in 1836 by his brother Shearjashub in his Guide to Sound Teeth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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
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 Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)
