devitalize AmE
devitalise BrE

But don't devitalize its flavor with pepper or salt.

The well-meaning clamor of fans to have Rose reinstated betrays a naïveté about the virulence of gambling and its potential to devitalize the game.

Your hard-core purist is anything but life-oriented; heaven preserve us from those who would devitalize science fiction, who would keep it from maturing and evolving.

Concerning the male, he pointed to a standard stockbreeder practice to not let a bull or a stallion serve too many or too often so as not to devitalize him.

They intended to capture Evereska much the same way they had destroyed the Netherese Empire, by using their life-draining magic to devitalize Evereska Vale.

According to the San Diego Evening Tribune in 1938, Rife stopped short of claiming that he could cure cancer, but did argue that he could "devitalize disease organisms" in living tissue, "with certain exceptions".

With drought and famine spreading across the countryside to further devitalize the rebellion, Sudan's lawful ruling establishment-the National Congress Party to which Arif al-Ashar belonged-had been encouraged that it might finally be subdued.