Vitiate

['vɪʃɪeɪt] or ['vɪʃɪet]

Definition

(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.

Typist: Virginia

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Impair, spoil, deteriorate, debase, deprave, corrupt, pollute, adulterate, injure, contaminate, infect, defile, poison.

Checker: Mara

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Impair, corrupt, spoil, injure, invalidate, deteriorate, taint

ANT:Corroborate, confirm, substantiate, justify, vindicate, sanction

Checked by Fern

Definition

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.

Inputed by Kari