vitiated 1 of 2

past tense of vitiate
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vitiated

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitiated
Verb
  • Buggs’ public defender also suggested that Alameda County prosecutors’ case was tainted by that bias.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • That Anniston’s offer is tainted is a given; that Charles is making a deal with a very bad man is obvious.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reportedly, 3 lakh acres of farmlands have been damaged and according to the Punjab state government half a million people across 23 districts have been affected by floods.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre will return to its home base, the Warwick Theatre, next week for its first production there since a fire badly damaged the historic venue 19 months ago.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In Nero’s time, stepping onto the stage degraded the emperor’s role.
    Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Long-term drought has degraded the old-growth forest where the squirrels live.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Experts in psychiatry and workplace wellness previously told Newsweek that long hours are linked to sleep disruption, impaired executive function and even structural changes in the brain.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • What is considered impaired driving in California?
    Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As part of her ruling, Kreuziger barred McQueen, 59, from saying Lawrence Kenyon poisoned or attempted to poison her while they were married.
    Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When she was eventually released, Lee and a small group of her followers made the journey to America to spread their gospel, believing the people of Manchester to be poisoned by the teachings of the Church of England.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The disruptions come amid a WNBA season in which multiple games were marred by the objects making appearances on the court.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Each death was devastating to relatives and friends left behind, and the first decades of the twentieth century were marred by individual grief on a global scale.
    Alice Vernon September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Childhood illnesses had severely weakened her own heart.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the legal safeguards against such encounters have weakened.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The first season concludes with patriarch Horace Bellaire marrying Kimmie from his hospital bed, leaving her his inheritance and shocking his spoiled heirs.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kayla Blanton is a freelance lifestyle writer, editor, and reviewer of seven years and a proud cat mom to three very spoiled rescues.
    Kayla Blanton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Vitiated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitiated. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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