The bray of a street band starting up not far behind them seemed to devitalise Duds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

Now, why am I with this drop-fire the prosecuted one that risks his life by any enraged death-squad, and those with their lucrative superweapons degenerate and devitalise the spirit of a whole people, leading them to mental necrosis, become my judges and my hunters, is my question too.    From Wordnik.com.  [de.indymedia.org newswire] Reference