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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 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.
Vitiate definition: to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. . See examples of VITIATE used in a sentence.
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.
Vitiate Definition. vĭshē-āt. vitiated, vitiates, vitiating. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Origin. Verb. Filter. 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. Similar definitions.
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.
Definition of vitiate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
VITIATE meaning: to make (something) less effective to ruin or spoil (something)
