to vitiate

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Definition of to vitiate in English English dictionary: deprave; to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something; to contaminate; {v} to deprave, corrupt, defile, deflour; To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air; to violate, to rape; to debase or morally corrupt; to make something ineffective, to invalidate; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"; make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"; take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidateas a contract"; If something is vitiated, its effectiveness is spoiled or weakened. Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between `easterners' and `westerners' But this does not vitiate his scholarship. to make something less effective or spoil it (past participle of vitiare, from vitium; VICE); To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract; {f} weaken; corrupt

to vitiate

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to vi·ti·ate

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