Vitiate Definition

vĭshē-āt
vitiated, vitiates, vitiating
verb
vitiated, vitiates, vitiating
To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil.
American Heritage
To make imperfect, faulty, or impure; spoil; corrupt.
Webster's New World
To weaken morally; debase; pervert.
Webster's New World
To make (a contract, or other legal instrument) ineffective; invalidate.
Webster's New World
To interfere with; to impair; to render null and void; to cause to have no effect.
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Origin of Vitiate

  • From vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin vitiō (“damage, spoil"), from vitium (“vice").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin vitiāre vitiāt- from vitium fault

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vitiate Sentence Examples

  • A mistake of fact in some circumstances could vitiate the contract.

  • Duress to the individual negotiator would, however, vitiate the effect of his signature.

  • Though Depretis, at the end of his life in 1887, showed signs of repenting of the confusion thus created, he had established a parliamentary system destined largely to sterilize and vitiate the political life of Italy.

  • To restore a text from the documental evidence available we must know and weigh the causes which tend to vitiate this evidence in its various kinds.

  • The origin of most of the abuses which vitiate Sicilian political life, and of the frequent scandals in the representative local administrations, is to be found in the straitened condition of the Sicilian middle classes.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIT

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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Words Starting With V and Ending With E

Starts With V & Ends With EStarts With VI & Ends With EStarts With V & Ends With TE

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With V7 Letter Words Ending With E