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Recent Examples of devitalize This can devitalize the plant to the point of it starting to die back. oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2023 Miller’s writing début may have been precipitated by her assault, but the final work devitalizes its horrific beginnings. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2019 His lip was completely destroyed with multiple linear lacerations, jagged lacerations, devitalized tissue, denervated tissue with a 12 cm laceration in multiple pieces of the entire left upper lift, the mucosal surface, and orbicularis. Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 1 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for devitalize
Verb
  • Trump has pursued policies that have repeatedly undermined the agenda of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—and show that divisions between the United States and Israel are widening.
    Daniel Byman, The Atlantic, 24 May 2025
  • Things could have been better still had Leclerc’s race not been undermined by the timing of the two safety cars.
    Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Verb
  • In Colorado, for example, several AI companies recently lobbied to delay and weaken the state’s landmark AI accountability legislation — a preview of what unchecked industry influence could look like under a regulatory freeze.
    Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • Their backing from the youngest voters weakened in 2024 (Catalist).
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 May 2025
Verb
  • Treating this condition involves surgery to implant a shunt to drain excess fluid from the inside of the skull, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
  • Siakam drains the three. Pacers 94, Knicks 85 — a game decided in the opening three minutes of the fourth quarter, against a team that kept running the same action until the Knicks finally broke.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 24 May 2025
Verb
  • Its rich, tinted formula softens without compromising pigment making Eadem’s Lip Softening Balm a no-fuss makeup staple that will leave you looking primped on the go and after a long day.
    Valerie Butler, Essence, 28 May 2025
  • That said, the broader US housing market remains under pressure from persistent affordability challenges, elevated mortgage rates, and softening consumer sentiment.
    Joe Cornell, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The board expects to establish authorize another buyback once the existing share repurchase is exhausted.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 May 2025
  • The Premier League attempted to broker an agreement but after exhausting all avenues the only option available in the time frame was to play at Joie Stadium.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 22 May 2025
Verb
  • Yet, Novo Nordisk Foundation did not waste this crisis.
    Tima Bansal, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • Their efforts filled about a dozen crates, transforming what might otherwise have gone to waste into nutritious food for neighbors in need.
    Vidula Aiyer, Mercury News, 25 May 2025
Verb
  • Nearly every day brings a fresh breach of what were once thought to be the rules, moves that have thrilled his insurgent supporters and petrified his nervous opponents.
    Peter Baker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • He was petrified by the thought of dying of cancer or some other disease whose senselessness disgusted him.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This relationship, when successful, tends to enervate mediating institutions that thwart the immediate desires of both the populist leader and the public.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The saving grace of this often enervating thriller is that Doscher grants time for his actors to build character and intimacy, and both Pinto and Odom offer warm, affectingly natural performances as two people facing the end of their world.
    Teo Bugbee, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020

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“Devitalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devitalize. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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