vitiate
/ˈvɪʃɪeɪt
/verb [with object] formal
1Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of: development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population...
- But in this same answer, that great saint recounts another admirable example of a great zeal, proceeding from a very good soul, which was however spoilt and vitiated by the excess of anger which it had stirred up.
- To what extent will imperfect, but still good, administration vitiate the efficiency properties of the tax?
- While O'Herlihy's panel gives his show more depth, the comedy programme presented by Keane and Taylor is vitiated by a cacophony of voices.
1.1Destroy or impair the legal validity of: the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant...
- This does not mean that every deviation from procedural regularity and legal correctness vitiates a jury's verdict of guilty.
- For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
- And why should he be made bankrupt if his apparent inability to pay is vitiated by the counterclaim or cross-demand?
Derivatives
vitiation
- A bad guy is no longer simply the opposite of ‘good guy;’ the ensuing but signals the vitiation of the villainous sting of depravity.
- While not leading to automatic vitiation of the warrant, there remains the need to protect the prior authorization process.
- Earlier art, music, or literature could reinterpret the Passion over and over again without vitiation.
vitiator
- They always intend to derive political mileage and are true vitiators of India's progress.
- Overindulgence was the vitiator of Junior's previously sweet disposition.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin vitiat- 'impaired', from the verb vitiare, from vitium (see vice1).
Rhymes
- rennin
- renning
- Reno
- renogram
- renography
- Renoir, Auguste
- Renoiresque
- Renoir, Jean
- Reno, Janet
- renominate
- renomination
- renopericardial
- renormalisation
- renormalizability
- renormalizable
- renormalization
- renormalize
- renosterbos
- renosterveld
- renounce
- renounceable
- renouncement
- renouncer
- renounce the world
- renovascular