Definition of "devitalise" [devitalise]

• Sap of life or energy (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The bray of a street band starting up not far behind them seemed to devitalise Duds."
• "Now, why am I with this drop-fire the prosecuted one that risks his life by any enraged death-squad, and those with their lucrative superweapons degenerate and devitalise the spirit of a whole people, leading them to mental necrosis, become my judges and my hunters, is my question too."