About The Word Vitiate
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Vitiate
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What's The Definition Of Vitiate?
[v] take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidateas a contract"
[v] make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [v] corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" Synonyms | Synonyms for Vitiate: corrupt | debase | debauch | deflower | demoralise | demoralize | deprave | impair | invalidate | mar | misdirect | pervert | profane | spoil | subvert | void Related Terms | Find terms related to Vitiate: See Also | alter | alter | bastardise | bastardize | blemish | carnalise | carnalize | change | change | cloud | corrupt | damage | deface | defile | disfigure | infect | lead astray | lead off | poison | sensualise | sensualize | suborn | sully | taint | whore Vitiate In Webster's Dictionary \Vi"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vitiated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Vitiating}.] [L. vitiatus, p. p. vitiare to vitiate,
fr. vitium a fault, vice. See {Vice} a fault.] [Written also
{viciate}.]
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to
impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration
vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
A will vitiated and growth out of love with the
truth disposes the understanding to error and
delusion. --South.
Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds.
--Burke.
This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the
taste of readers. --Garth.
2. 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; as, any undue
influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud
vitiates a contract.
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