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vi·ti·ate I. \ˈvishēə̇t\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare to vitiate : vitiated II. \ˈvishēˌāt, usu -ād.+V\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare to vitiate, from vitium fault, vice — more at with transitive verb 1. : to make incomplete, faulty, or defective : injure the substance or quality of : impair, contaminate, spoil, corrupt < exaggeration vitiates a style of writing > < the fox … vitiates his line of scent with the gas fumes on the macadam highways — George Heinold > 2. a. : to debase in moral or aesthetic standards : deprave, pervert < vitiated by luxury > < vitiating the public taste > b. obsolete : to violate the chastity of 3. : to make ineffective either wholly or in part : destroy the validity or force of (as an instrument or transaction) : invalidate < fraud vitiates a contract > 4. : to make (air) impure by or as if by the accumulation of the products of respiration intransitive verb : to become vitiated; also : to cause vitiation Synonyms: see debase |