devitalizev.
/dɪˈvʌɪtəlʌɪz/ transitive. To deprive of vitality or vital qualities; to render lifeless or effete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak
fellOE
wastec1230
faintc1386
endull1395
resolvea1398
afaintc1400
defeat?c1400
dissolvec1400
weakc1400
craze1476
feeblish1477
debilite1483
overfeeble1495
plucka1529
to bring low1530
debilitate1541
acraze1549
decaya1554
infirma1555
weaken1569
effeeble1571
enervate1572
enfeeble1576
slay1578
to pull downa1586
prosternate1593
shake1594
to lay along1598
unsinew1598
languefy1607
enerve1613
pulla1616
dispirit1647
imbecilitate1647
unstring1700
to run down1733
sap1755
reduce1767
prostrate1780
shatter1785
undermine1812
imbecile1829
disinvigorate1844
devitalize1849
wreck1850
atrophy1865
crumple1892
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > cause to lose vitality or vigour
languisha1464
castrate1554
damp1564
dead1586
flag1602
wooden1641
dispirit1647
deaden1684
disvigorate1694
devitalize1849
narcotize1852
wilt1855
woodenize1877
abirritate1882
1849 I. Taylor Loyola & Jesuitism (1857) 359 The philosophy which is propounded to youth must be devitalized.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 223 Those [persons]..being devitalized by other noxious influences, such as vitiated air, defective sewerage, bad water, or an inadequate supply of food.
1869 Owen in Microsc. Jrnl. May 294 Organisms which we can devitalise and revitalise—devive and revive—many times.
1876 Contemp. Rev. 28 729 This one incontestable fact of itself overthrows or devitalizes the entire doctrine.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (ed. 2) 86 The biologist cannot devitalise a plant or an animal and revivify it again.
Derivatives
deˈvitalized adj.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] > using up completely > used up completely > of air, soil, etc.
exhausted1691
devitalized1866
1866 Reader 1 Sept. 770 Fungi..flourish on..surfaces..which belong to devitalized beings.
1875 B. W. Richardson Dis. Mod. Life 385 Devitalized air finds its entrance into human habitations.
deˈvitalizing adj.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]
evilc1000
unsete1387
pestilenta1398
pestilentiala1398
unhealfulc1400
unthendec1425
unsetyc1440
unwholesomec1455
ill1488
pestifere1490
contagious1495
infectious1534
pestiferous1538
unhealthsome1544
unkindlyc1570
deletery1576
deleterious1587
bad1589
unhealthful1598
unsound1598
unhealthy1600
sickly1604
deleterial1621
tetrous1637
insalubrious1638
unseasoned1638
cankered1645
healthless1650
insalutary1694
maliferous1727
insanous1742
unsalubrious1781
unsanitary1872
insanitary1874
devitalizing1875
antihygienic1876
unhygienic1883
unhealthy-looking1890
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 349 The poison exerts no destructive chemical or devitalizing influence upon the tissues.
deˌvitaliˈzation n. the action of devitalizing.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > reduced vitality
depression1803
collapsing1855
peak and pine1868
devitalization1871
1871 Sat. Rev. 1 Apr. 398/2 New preparations of concentrated food..to meet the ‘devitalization’ which seems increasing in what we suppose to be the well-nourished class of families.
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