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DEVITALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
The recession devitalized the economy
Synonyms:
devitalise; devitalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
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