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vitiate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert |
| Type of | change, modify, alter |
| Has types | sensualize, poison, sensualise, suborn, bastardise, bastardize, carnalize, lead astray, lead off, infect, carnalise |
vitiate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | invalidate, void |
| Type of | change, alter, modify |
| Derivation | vitiation |
Examples of vitiate
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It is a kind of acceptance that does not vitiate his desire to see justice done.
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But she also has an indiscipline that can vitiate her assets.
From the timesunion.com
However, there is a compromise to get there that does not require the state to vitiate collective bargaining rights.
From the forbes.com
There's something cosmically cleansing about the idea that helps vitiate the unpleasant memories of his vile outbursts.
From the guardian.co.uk
At least two things now vitiate the play's impact.
From the time.com
Incongruity of a defendant's language and action, or of a plaintiff's perception and reality may vitiate an assault claim.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Europe's leaders fret that the U.S. plans will vitiate arms-control regimes and encourage Russia and China to build up their arsenals.
From the time.com
Lobbyists had tried to festoon it with no fewer than 125 amendments-many aiming to vitiate the Clean Air law-but Congress knocked them down.
From the time.com
It's chilling to write these words, but EU leaders are evidently prepared to vitiate Greek democracy and wreck the Greek economy rather than allow the euro to break apart.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- Corrupt: 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"
- Mar: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
- Invalidate: take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"
- (vitiated) diminished: impaired by diminution
- (vitiated) corrupted: ruined in character or quality
- (vitiation) nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null; "the vitiation of the contract"
- To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something; to debase or morally corrupt; to violate, to rape; to make something ineffective, to invalidate
- (vitiation) a reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something; moral corruption; an abolition or abrogation
- (v) to impair the quality of; mar; degrade
