devitalize

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To deprive of vitality; to make lifeless; to weaken.

   Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.

Similar words

devitalise sap dead disinvigorate devive pall debilitate deaden disanimate enervate

Often followed by

the and it

Word family

devitalization devitalizations devitalized devitalizes devitalizing