An infestation of Margarodes may devitalize the host directly by sap depletion and by injecting toxins. |
But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again. |
One of the clear lessons of the last century is that accommodating a city to the needs of the automobile is probably the surest way to devitalize that city. |
Sometimes the impression of this diathesis is so intense as to devitalize the foetus in utero, causing still-birth. |
Its effect must have also been to devitalize the oxygen and nitrogen of the atmosphere. |
Now will to devitalize the entire hand from the wrist to the finger-tips. |