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vitiate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of vitiate

1 to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable
  • believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person
Synonyms of vitiate

blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil, stain, taint, tarnish, touch
Words Related to vitiate

begrime, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blur, cloud, dirty, discolor, pollute, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, sully, tar

abase, cheapen, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, lower, shame, sink

bastardize, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvert
Near Antonyms of vitiate

cleanse, purify

dignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, hallow, magnify, uplift
2 to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
  • Numerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing.
Synonyms of vitiate

blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil
Words Related to vitiate

deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weaken

erode, scour, wash out, wear (away)

blight, tarnish

dent, ding, dint

botch, gum (up), queer

lacerate, wound

disable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, torture

annihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck
Near Antonyms of vitiate

cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedy

edit, remodel, revise

ameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine
Antonyms of vitiate

doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp
3 to lower in character, dignity, or quality
  • A penchant for coarse language vitiates what is otherwise a refined literary style.
Synonyms of vitiate

abase, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, warp
Words Related to vitiate

befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weaken

descend

disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take down

blemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreck

depreciate, downgrade
Near Antonyms of vitiate

dignify, exalt, honor

ameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect

clarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restore

respect
Antonyms of vitiate

elevate, ennoble, uplift

Synonym Discussion of vitiate

debase, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debauch, pervert mean to cause deterioration or lowering in quality or character. debase implies a loss of position, worth, value, or dignity.
    • commercialism has debased the holiday
vitiate implies a destruction of purity, validity, or effectiveness by allowing entrance of a fault or defect.
    • a foreign policy vitiated by partisanship
deprave implies moral deterioration by evil thoughts or influences.
    • the claim that society is depraved by pornography
corrupt implies loss of soundness, purity, or integrity.
    • the belief that bureaucratese corrupts the language
debauch implies a debasing through sensual indulgence.
    • the long stay on a tropical isle had debauched the ship's crew
pervert implies a twisting or distorting from what is natural or normal.
    • perverted the original goals of the institute

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