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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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(Definition of vitiate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Vitiate definition: to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. . See examples of VITIATE used in a sentence.
3 meanings: 1. to make faulty or imperfect 2. to debase, pervert, or corrupt 3. to destroy the force or legal effect of (a.... Click for more definitions.
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.
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. vi`ti•a′tion, n. vi′ti•a`tor, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc.
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.
Fraud vitiates everything it touches. The purpose of the laws, the legislative history that preceded them, and the trial testimony that followed them, vitiate the argument that "patterns" of official racial discrimination no longer exist. None of this vitiates the concept of maltreatment in general and psychological maltreatment in particular.
Definition of vitiate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. vitiate something to destroy or reduce the effect of something. The ‘yes’ vote was vitiated by the low turnout in the election. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
If something is vitiated, its effectiveness is spoiled or weakened. [formal] [...] present simple: I vitiate, you vitiate [...] past simple: I vitiated, you vitiated [...] • spoil, mar, undermine, impair [...] • corrupt, contaminate, pollute, pervert [...]
Jun 2, 2024 · vitiate (third-person singular simple present vitiates, present participle vitiating, simple past and past participle vitiated) (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
