Devitalize

Quick meaning: Devitalize is a verb meaning (literal, figurative, transitive) To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.

Meaning

(literal, figurative, transitive) To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: deanimate

Economic stress has devitalized some shopping malls in the web era.

Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.

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.

Word Forms

• devitalizes
• devitalizing
• devitalized

Synonyms for devitalize

Depending on context, synonyms include deanimate, devitalise.

Antonyms for devitalize

Common opposites include reanimate, rejuvenate, revitalize, vitalize, vitalise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include devitalise, sap, dead, disinvigorate, devive, pall.

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