Meaning of VITIATE
| Pronunciation: | | 'vishee`eyt
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | corrupt, debase, debauch, deflower, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, impair, invalidate, mar, misdirect, pervert, profane, spoil, subvert, void |
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| | Antonyms: | | validate | | |
| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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