Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of depriving of vitality: as, the devitalization of tissue.
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- noun The act of
devitalizing .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of reducing the vitality of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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A graceful girl in pink, with floating scarf, and gleaming _kris_ in her spangled sash, exhibits wonderful skill in the supple play of wrist and fingers, through the process known as devitalization, a form of drill which gives to the arm
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Greek State loses around 2 billion Euros every year from the tax evasion of employers who promote uninsured labor, thus contributing to the devitalization of the pension system.
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It also stood for collective devitalization and depression in a society preceived by its members as lacking spiritual roots.
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Pictures of life in the shadows during this phase of devitalization are not very abundant, nor do they convey the essential misery into which a whole generation was born, in which it lived and died.
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I studied the Mason method, and found many helpful, illuminating ideas in regard to relaxation and devitalization.
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But relaxation, even at first, is not the only thing; after devitalization comes organization, firmness and solidity -- in the right places.
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In other words, I am neither an anarchist who wants no government, namely unrestrained devitalization, nor a socialist, whose cry is for all government -- that is, restriction and rigidity.
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If the infection takes place in Peyer's patches, typhoid fever is the consequence; if the local trouble is of the cecum, typhlitis will result, and if the local devitalization is in the appendix, brought on from the irritating effects of a fecal calculus, appendicitis will result.
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Figs. 72 and 79 fairly indicate the effects of undue mental activity, the intellect causing vital expenditure resulting in the devitalization of the blood.
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The managers who oversaw the devitalization of America were part of the Greatest Generation.
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