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
These shoots are useless, devitalize the vine, and hinder vineyard operations.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
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
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
So psychic was he, that his disinclination to be in crowds or meet many people came from the fact that they devitalized him, leaving him limp as a rag.
From Edgar Saltus: The Man by Saltus, Marie
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
This devitalizing drain must be stopped, and the great body of progressives and radicals won over to a whole-hearted support of the trade unions.
From The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by Foster, William Z.
It is true that some sickly teachers exert a powerful influence over their pupils, but in most instances their influence and their efficiency are due to powers that exist in spite of devitalizing elements.
From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.
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 Underhill, Evelyn
