devitalize

But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again.

Its effect must have also been to devitalize the oxygen and nitrogen of the atmosphere.

His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.

Now will to devitalize the entire hand from the wrist to the finger-tips.

These shoots are useless, devitalize the vine, and hinder vineyard operations.

Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth.