Verb
To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.
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Near-synonym: deanimate
Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.
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Economic stress has devitalized some shopping malls in the web era.
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.
Verb
sap of life or energy
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The recession devitalized the economy