devitalize

Our work is to devitalize negativity, not revitalize it with our attitudes, thoughts, projections or actions.

Elena Brower: Art Of Attention: Is Yoga Really Useful? 2009

To put Scottie with some defeated actress teaching for Miss This-Or-Thats would be to devitalize the whole idea.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

To put Scottie with some defeated actress teaching for Miss This-Or-Thats would be to devitalize the whole idea.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

It has been argued that the cooperative conception of the federal relationship, especially as it is realized in the policy of federal subventions to the States, tends to break down state initiative and to devitalize state policies.

The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

While one of the strangest results of the introduction of machinery into modern industry is that instead of liberating the human powers and initiative of the workers, it has often tended to devitalize and warp these forces to the functions of machines, yet this result is so strange that it cannot seem inevitable.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

[50] One must not be misled by popular statements in this connection, such as this of Professor Owen's: "There are organisms which we can devitalize and revitalize -- devive and revive -- many times."

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

"curing" it by mental control (even granting that this is the case), we burn the candle at both ends -- for the reason that we devitalize the body by allowing it to become diseased and then waste more energy in the mental effort to get well again!

The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919

One of the strangest effects of the introduction of machinery into industry is that instead of liberating the human powers and initiative of workers from mechanical drudgery, it has often tended to devitalize and warp these forces to the functions of machines. [

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again. [

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874