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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb devitalize has 1 sense

• devitalize(v = verb.change) devitalise - sap of life or energy; "The recession devitalized the economy"
is one way to weaken
Derived form noun devitalization₁
Antonym: vitalize
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

devitalize

abate, afflict, attenuate, blunt, castrate, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, demasculinize, deprive, derange, desex, desexualize, disable, disorder, dry up, dull, effeminize, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, hospitalize, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, lay low, lay up, mitigate, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, sicken, soften up, sterilize, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken

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