Vitiate
['vɪʃɪeɪt] or ['vɪʃɪet]
解释:
(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.
编辑:弗吉尼亚
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Impair, spoil, deteriorate, debase, deprave, corrupt, pollute, adulterate, injure, contaminate, infect, defile, poison.
校对:玛拉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Impair, corrupt, spoil, injure, invalidate, deteriorate, taint
ANT:Corroborate, confirm, substantiate, justify, vindicate, sanction
弗恩手打
解释:
v.t. to render faulty or defective: to make less pure: to deprave: to taint—earlier Vi′ciate.—ns. Vitiā′tion; Vi′tiātor; Vitios′ity state or quality of being vicious.
录入:卡利
例句:
- For the mind to take a hand, so to speak, would be for it in the very process of knowing to vitiate true knowledge--to defeat its own purpose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- The young are to be brought up in happy surroundings, out of the way of sights or sounds which may hurt the character or vitiate the taste. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- How to remove the heated, vitiated air and to supply fresh air while maintaining the same uniform temperature is a problem of long standing. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Christianity so vitiated was not good enough for the Mongol mind. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- There is no vitiated, foul air because of noxious gases from ordinary cooking stoves. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This is generally, but erroneously attributed to vitiated instincts. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- There are none of the bad effects so often caused by the air becoming vitiated, due to the burning up of oxygen in the air by gas and other fuels. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
艾娜录入