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third-person singular simple present devitalizes, present participle devitalizing, simple past and past participle devitalized
(literal, figurative, transitive) To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken. quotations examples
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.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 126