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1
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable
- believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person
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2
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of
- numerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing
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- 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
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- abase,
- bastardize,
- canker,
- cheapen,
- corrupt,
- debase,
- debauch,
- degrade,
- demean,
- demoralize,
- deprave,
- deteriorate,
- lessen,
- pervert,
- poison,
- profane,
- prostitute,
- subvert,
- warp
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The first known use of vitiate was in 1534
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