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- Dictionaryvitiate/ˈvɪʃɪeɪt/
verb
- 1. spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of: formal "development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population"
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The meaning of VITIATE is to make faulty or defective : impair. How to use vitiate in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Vitiate.
to destroy or damage something: He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Deteriorating and making worse. add. admin. aggravate. backslide. be downhill idiom. debase. deteriorate. deterioration. devaluation. devalue. disintegrate. dog.
Vitiate definition: to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. . See examples of VITIATE used in a sentence.
Vitiate is often used when a legal agreement is made invalid, but it can also refer to the debasement or corruption of something or someone. If a malicious five-year-old on the playground teaches the other children to lie with their fingers crossed, she would be responsible for vitiating the playground community.
1. to make faulty or imperfect. 2. to debase, pervert, or corrupt. 3. to destroy the force or legal effect of (a deed, etc) to vitiate a contract. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
to destroy or damage something: He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Deteriorating and making worse. add. admin. aggravate. backslide. be downhill idiom. debase. deteriorate. deterioration. devaluation. devalue. disintegrate. dog.
1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. 2. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of. 3. to debase; corrupt; pervert. 4. to make legally invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim.
