Definition of "devitalizes" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of devitalize. (verb)

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• "There is only one drawback for the cigarette manufacturer, his consumer is too short lived; the cigarette devitalizes, pauperizes, and destroys."
• "And the second truth is, that many are born so close in relationship to the unseen plane and in such psychical correspondence, that some slight thing which weakens the will-power -- sorrow, a disease that devitalizes the physical, some shock, or some prolonged or strained mental condition, breaks down the remaining law of separation, and the life is astray in the psychical world, manifesting abnormal, physical laws."
• "It is like going to a hospital to be cured of one disease and catching a worse one there which devitalizes the victim for life."