DEVITALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does devitalise mean? 

• DEVITALISE (verb)
  The verb DEVITALISE has 1 sense:

1. sap of life or energy

  Familiarity information: DEVITALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEVITALISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they devitalise    ... he / she / it devitalises   
Past simple: devitalised   
Past participle: devitalised   
-ing form: devitalising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sap of life or energy

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

devitalise; devitalize

Context example:

The recession devitalized the economy

Hypernyms (to "devitalise" is one way to...):

weaken (lessen the strength of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "devitalise"):

eviscerate (take away a vital or essential part of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

devitalisation (the act of reducing the vitality of something)