vitiate
pronunciation
How to pronounce vitiate in British English:
UK [ˈvɪʃieɪt]
How to pronounce vitiate in American English:
US [ˈvɪʃiˌet]
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- Verb:
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make imperfect
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
Word Origin
- vitiate (v.)
- 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
Example
- 1. No such variation shall vitiate or invalidate this contract .
- 2. As can be seen , a brilliant benchmarking study might be able to determine the various sorts of matrices for payouts , but it might vitiate the notion of a fulsome inspirational exercise .
- 3. That will largely vitiate any notion of the eu at last speaking with one voice , or of answering the famously mythical kissinger question about whom to call when an outsider wants to talk to europe .