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v. - Sap of life or energy.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Our work is to devitalize negativity, not revitalize it with our attitudes, thoughts, projections or actions.
  • It has been argued that the cooperative conception of the federal relationship, especially as it is realized in the policy of federal subventions to the States, tends to break...
  • While one of the strangest results of the introduction of machinery into modern industry is that instead of liberating the human powers and initiative of the workers, it has...
  • "curing" it by mental control (even granting that this is the case), we burn the candle at both ends -- for the reason that we devitalize the body by allowing it to...
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