devitalize

English

Etymology

de- +‎ vitalize

Verb

devitalize (third-person singular simple present devitalizes, present participle devitalizing, simple past and past participle devitalized)

  1. To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 126:
      Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.

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