Vitiate

  • 21vitiate — v. a. 1. Impair, spoil, deteriorate, debase, deprave, corrupt, pollute, adulterate, injure, contaminate, infect, defile, poison, render defective, make vicious. 2. Make void, destroy, cause to fail of effect …

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  • 22vitiate — verb (transitive usually passive) formal to make something less effective or spoil it: The conclusions were vitiated by doubts concerning the scientific evidence. vitiation / vISi eISFn/ noun (U) …

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  • 23vitiate — v 1. impair, reduce, degrade, devaluate, depreciate, deteriorate, depress, lower; adulterate, pollute, contaminate, spoil, mar, taint; infect, poison; alloy, dilute, weaken, mix, admix, thin, make impure, tamper with, Inf. doctor, (usu. of drugs… …

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  • 24vitiate — vi·ti·ate …

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  • 25vitiate — /ˈvɪʃieɪt / (say visheeayt) verb (t) (vitiated, vitiating) 1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; mar. 2. to contaminate; corrupt; spoil. 3. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate. {Latin vitiātus, past participle, spoiled}… …

  • 26vitiate —   v.t. impair; spoil; debase; make useless or impure.    ♦ vitiation,    ♦ vitiator, n …

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  • 27vitiate — To impair; to make void or voidable; to cause to fail of force or effect. To destroy or annul, either entirely or in part, the legal efficacy and binding force of an act or instrument; as when it is said that fraud vitiates a contract …

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  • 28vitiate — To weaken, particularly in reference to moral stamina. To invalidate …

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  • 29vitiate — v.tr. 1 impair the quality or efficiency of; corrupt, debase, contaminate. 2 make invalid or ineffectual. Derivatives: vitiation n. vitiator n. Etymology: L vitiare f. vitium VICE(1) …

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  • 30surplusage does not vitiate — A maxim. State v Richards, 32 W Va 348, 9 SE 245 …

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