devitalised

The chatter rose and fell spasmodically in short devitalised bursts of polite effort.

The Jervaise Comedy 1910

Dwarfed or robbed of elasticity, the devitalised individuality, even while it seems outwardly fair and symmetrical, perishes from within.

Freedom is as necessary to life as law and regime; diversity is as necessary as unity to our true completeness Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

Dwarfed or robbed of elasticity, the devitalised individuality, even while it seems outwardly fair and symmetrical, perishes from within.

Archive 2008-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

In one instance of ligature of the anterior tibial artery for such hæmorrhage three-quarters of the whole lumen of the vessel had been devitalised.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

The lesions were the result of immense force strictly localised in its application, which might well induce very complete and rapid contraction of the vessel wall; while the track in the soft parts was not only narrow, but also lined by a thin layer of tissue possibly so devitalised superficially as to specially favour rapid coagulation of the blood.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

He had thrown her a burden on the convent that sheltered her so willingly only for want of will power to conquer the weakness that had devitalised brain and body.

The Shadow of the East

Humanity, however devitalised, however incapable of varied passions, does not lose the love passion so long as it has the animal instinct of the fly and the rudimentary human instinct to idealise.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

The manoeuvring of the elder, which might easily have been vulgarised on the one hand or devitalised on the other, just remains refreshingly and believably human.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 Various

Are you aware of the things that can happen to you if you allow the red corpuscles of your blood to become devitalised?

Jill the Reckless 1928

"Who was that?" asked the sick woman, in her ghostly, devitalised voice.

Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926