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- verb Present participle of
devitalize .
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Examples
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When does being plugged in serve a purpose, and when does it become devitalizing?
Anne Naylor: Why Unplug and Recharge Your Relationships? 2010
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In a 38-page ruling, Bloch called Owens's behavior "unparalleled detrimental misconduct" and wrote that Eagles Coach Andy Reid "could properly conclude that, however excellent Owens' performance was on the field, his off-field conduct and demeanor were seriously devitalizing the organization."
Albert Haynesworth suspension permitted under NFL's collective bargaining agreement Post 2010
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Stepping away from the textbooks to read conditions from the sidewalks, it is clear that losing our best-paying jobs has been devitalizing.
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Stepping away from the textbooks to read conditions from the sidewalks, it is clear that losing our best-paying jobs has been devitalizing.
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Stepping away from the textbooks to read conditions from the sidewalks, it is clear that losing our best-paying jobs has been devitalizing.
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Stepping away from the textbooks to read conditions from the sidewalks, it is clear that losing our best-paying jobs has been devitalizing.
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Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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Empire, in its universal impoverishment and its lack of any critical vigour, to the well-meaning but devitalizing autocracy of the Emperor
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The journal Product Engineering, published in the USA, defined such devitalizing negative fields 13 February 1967:
The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity Daniel Reid 1989
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In the misery of his dereliction and afflicted by the devitalizing consquences attendant upon it, he had preferred the indulgences of self-pity and the delusory solaces of paga to the exultant and proud imposition of his will, as a dominant male, on the hearts and bodies of writhing female slaves.
Rogue Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1982
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