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English
Etymology
From de- + vitalize.
Verb
devitalize (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.
- Antonyms: animate, reanimate, rejuvenate, revitalize, vitalize
- Coordinate terms: dispirit, kill
- Near-synonym: deanimate
Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.
Economic stress has devitalized some shopping malls in the web era.
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.
Translations
1. To deprive of vitality