disutilize

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disutilize (third-person singular simple present disutilizes, present participle disutilizing, simple past and past participle disutilized)

(transitive) To deprive of utility; to render useless.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:
  Death's black dust, being blown,
  Infiltrated through every secret fold
  Of this sealed letter by a puff of fate,
  Dried up forever the fresh-written ink,
  Annulled the gift, disutilized the grace,
  And left these fragments.