MEANING
1. To deprive tissue, an organism, or a body of its living vitality or capacity to function.
2. To deprive something of vigor, force, or effectiveness.
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Words that belong together
- devitalize tissue
- devitalized bone
On the page
The report described devitalized tissue around the unfamiliar growth.
In the novel, the organism devitalized the host’s limbs before replacing them.
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- Base
- devitalize
- Past tense
- devitalized
- Past participle
- devitalized
- Present participle
- devitalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- devitalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are devitalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has devitalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been devitalizing
- Past
- devitalized
- Past continuous
- was/were devitalizing
- Past perfect
- had devitalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been devitalizing
- Future
- will devitalize
- Future continuous
- will be devitalizing
- Future perfect
- will have devitalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been devitalizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: devitalize; devitalizes; devitalized; devitalized; devitalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: devitalizes.
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