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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
devitalize .
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Examples
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a few times through the lungs, it becomes "devitalized," or incapable of supporting life, although its chemical composition remains the same, and all carbonic dioxide and other impurities are removed.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 1856
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Describing her wounds at a press conference Jan 9, Dr. Michael Lemole, the chief of neurosurgery at the University Medical Center in Arizona, said they removed bone fragments from her brain and some devitalized brain matter.
Cassandra M. Bellantoni: Brain Expert: Turn off the TV and Let Giffords Sleep Cassandra M. Bellantoni 2011
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The devitalized area gradually regained its health and fish eventually returned.
Neal Barnard, M.D.: Save the Bay, Save Your Life M.D. Neal Barnard 2011
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The devitalized area gradually regained its health and fish eventually returned.
Neal Barnard, M.D.: Save the Bay, Save Your Life M.D. Neal Barnard 2011
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The devitalized area gradually regained its health and fish eventually returned.
Neal Barnard, M.D.: Save the Bay, Save Your Life M.D. Neal Barnard 2011
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The devitalized area gradually regained its health and fish eventually returned.
Neal Barnard, M.D.: Save the Bay, Save Your Life M.D. Neal Barnard 2011
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"Those who begin to exercise regularly, and replace white flour, sugar, and devitalized foods with live, organic, natural foods, begin to feel better immediately," he said.
John Robbins: The Real Jack LaLanne John Robbins 2011
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Lone Wolf and I definitely have telepathy, but in this case of feeling unsettled, disturbed, devitalized -- whatever it was that was troubling us -- our feelings were transferring back and forth as well.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Let the Saints Come Marching In 2010
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Lone Wolf and I definitely have telepathy, but in this case of feeling unsettled, disturbed, devitalized -- whatever it was that was troubling us -- our feelings were transferring back and forth as well.
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Is there room for reasonable doubt that this race, unless devitalized by alcohol and tobacco, is destined to dispossess many weaker races, assimilate others and mold the remainder, until, in a very true and important sense, it has Anglo-Saxonized mankind?
The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010
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