Vitiate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To reduce the value or impair the quality of.
  • v. To corrupt morally; debase.
  • v. To make ineffective; invalidate. See Synonyms at corrupt.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something
  • v. to debase or morally corrupt
  • v. to violate, to rape
  • v. to make something ineffective, to invalidate
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil
  • v. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render vicious, faulty, or imperfect; injure the quality or substance of; cause to be defective; impair; spoil; corrupt: as, a vitiated taste.
  • To cause to fail of effect, either in whole or in part; render invalid or of no effect; destroy the validity or binding force of, as of a legal instrument or a transaction; divest of legal value or authority; invalidate: as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contact; a court is vitiated by the presence of unqualified persons sitting as members of it.
  • Synonyms Pollute, Corrupt, etc. (see taint), debase, deprave.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  • v. make imperfect
  • v. take away the legal force of or render ineffective
  • Verb Form
    vitiated    vitiates    vitiating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    annul    degrade    corrupt    impair    spoil