What is the opposite of the verb "animate"?

What is the opposite of the verb animate? I am looking for something meaning "take life out of something."

Solution 1:

I believe it is uncommon, but disanimate is a word that means to deprive of life that has the same root as animate plus the Latinate prefix dis- which indicates a reversal or negation.

Solution 2:

Depress is listed as its antonym and can be used depending on the subject.

Solution 3:

How about:

Deprive
Unnerve
Weaken
Enervate
Devitalize
Debilitate
Exsanguinate

Solution 4:

Here are a few:

Deaden
Dampen (as in his spirits were dampened)
Dispirit
Quiet/Quieten (As in he quieted the man)