Word Meanings - DEVITALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of life or vitality. -- De*vi`tal*i*za"tion, n.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
VITALITY
The quality or state of being vital; the principle of life; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable seeds; the vitality of an enterprise.