Devitalize
"Devitalize" in a Sentence (4 examples)
Near-synonym: deanimate
Noncrushing surgical clamps avoid devitalizing the cells of arterial walls.
Economic stress has devitalized some shopping malls in the web era.
Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.