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de·vi·tal·ize
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devitalizes, devitalizing, devitalized
devitalization (n.)
verb
transitive verb
to deprive of life, vigor, or effectiveness
也可以写作 devitalise,意为“剥夺生命力”,1839年出现; 参见 de- 和 vitalize。相关词汇: Devitalized; devitalizing; devitalization。
使失活,去生机
The first known use of devitalize was in 1849
devitalizetransitive verb
to deprive of life or vitality: as
to refine (as foodstuffs) to the point that essential or desirable constituents are lost
to subject (a tooth or its pulp) to devitalization
1 Such changes, whether they be septic or of devitalized morbid accumulations, or alterations in the fluids themselves, appear to have met their Richmond in Echinacea.
2 Neither is it true, as some claim, that pruning is a devitalizing process.
3 She was a tennis-playing nutritionist with a master's in biochemistry who was a critic of processed, "devitalized" foods and advocated for vitamin supplements.
4 This devitalizing drain must be stopped, and the great body of progressives and radicals won over to a whole-hearted support of the trade unions.
5 In fact, the war’s profoundly devitalizing effects upon the general population can hardly be overestimated.
6 The spurious period placed at the end of a problem is the death warrant for that problem and there it must lie devitalized by ignorance and indolence.
7 His opinions, whatever they are, do not devitalize his fiction.
8 Lashed by the phantom-scourge of a now passing era, the world of astronomers is in a state of terrorism, though of a highly attenuated, modernized, devitalized kind.
9 Fernandez-Palacios was "just a pale reflection of an interfering, intrusive, badly educated, spoiled, capricious, devitalized and servile policy" that was submissive to the United States, the letter stated.
10 She felt the cold upon her face; yet the air seemed devitalized by some exhausting voltage, she had known before.
11 The rite of Confirmation has, however, been devitalized, and its immense significance has been almost wholly lost.
12 It is wonderful how anyone can endure existence, or long survive, in this devitalized condition; yet, thousands do, and with careful nursing, manage to bring into the world several sickly children.
13 She was as dear to him as ever, but now with a devitalized, undemanding affection in which there was something of a child's fretful dependence.
14 So psychic was he, that his disinclination to be in crowds or meet many people came from the fact that they devitalized him, leaving him limp as a rag.
15 They teach according to such devitalized methods and in such an unvitalized way as to discredit the subjects they teach.
16 But nearly three hundred years of easily maintained security, the last century of which had been nearly sterile in scientific, social and economic progress, had softened and devitalized the Hans.
17 The persecutions that followed a refusal to worship the emperor, with all the other devitalizing influences mentioned, threatened the very existence of the Christian Church.
18 Miller’s writing début may have been precipitated by her assault, but the final work devitalizes its horrific beginnings.
19 Too many firms have closed their doors in recent years, leaving hundreds of workers out on the street and communities devitalized.
20 Too many environmental causes of cancer are not addressed and too much of the food we eat is devitalized.
1 衰弱
marantic awane low floppy faded feeble worn-out infirm flaccid flagging broken-down effete enfeebled unstrung seely puling weakish asthenic down infirmly infirmness exinanition collapse breakdown attenuation debility asthenia enervation enfeeblement languishment lose break waste weaken wilt wane lower sink wither prostrate debilitate enervate enfeeble unstring rundown niminy-piminy weakness decay marasmus pine emaciate flag fade droop fade away take it out of shaky withered enervated doddered adynamic labefaction tabefaction decline relaxation sinking impotence infirmity prostration wear fail languish bate reduce sap depress etiolate
2 杀死
get dispatch zap croak fordo put out of existence hit kill mort off end lose total cool spot fix ice waste shift burn cream stretch transport wipe wooden bump wax spill chill erase rap fetch slay snatch crease smite fell snuff annihilate lynch deaden knacker scrag take into camp putout of existence give a good account of put in a box blip off make a hit settle hash make an end of put an end to
3 使失去活力
4 无生气
slow dead wooden dusty sterile sleepy lifeless arid lackluster inanimate bloodless vapid sodden insensate amort doldrums
5 失去活力