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Meaning of 'vitiate'
Meaning of 'vitiate' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Vitiate 
[ v. t.]
- 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. [ v. t.]- 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.
Meaning of 'vitiate' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. vitiate [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Example in sentence:
- corrupt the morals;
- debauch the young people with wine and women;
- Do school counselors subvert young children?;
- Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
Meaning (2):
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
Example in sentence:
- invalidate a contract
Meaning (3):
- make imperfect
- make imperfect
Example in sentence:
- nothing marred her beauty
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