VITIATED Synonyms: 200 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in impaired

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verb

past tense of vitiate

as in tainted

to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person

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as in damaged

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of numerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing

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as in degraded

to lower in character, dignity, or quality a penchant for coarse language vitiates what is otherwise a refined literary style

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Adjective

Allegedly impaired driver slams into city bus The dual tragedies on Tuesday evening unfolded in rapid succession.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
Parkinson’s is often marked by tremors, slow or impaired movement, tenseness or rigidity and difficulty balancing, as well as speech changes and loss of automatic motor functions like blinking or smiling, according to Mayo Clinic.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of impaired

Verb

Grand jury proceedings are kept confidential to allow people to testify freely without worrying about consequences and so that the subjects of an investigation are not unfairly tainted before the jury can decide whether to file charges against them.

— Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
The judge also rejected Smart's arguments that the verdict was tainted by media attention and by faulty jury instructions.

— CBS News, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of tainted

Verb

The suicide attack on Friday brought down an outer wall of the police offices and badly damaged the mosque.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Aid groups warn more than three-quarters of Gaza’s housing stock is damaged, thousands of buildings are at risk of collapse, and residents grow especially vulnerable when winter rains seep into weakened structures.

— Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of damaged

Verb

Nothing has degraded more for Latino men, however, than the simple pleasures of life.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
Highly active variants quickly degraded under thermal stress, and stable variants operated far too slowly to be commercially viable.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of degraded

Adjective

Towards the end of the episode, Abby (Hall) and Andrew Borden (Hunnam) get very sick after eating spoiled oysters — projectile vomiting and soiling their undergarments in the dining room.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026
None of its marks seem to maintain their integrity for more than an inch or two without being fretted or spoiled.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of spoiled

Verb

Ten lions found dead in a wildlife reserve in Tanzania are suspected to have been poisoned, according to wildlife officials.

— Kristin Wright, NPR, 20 Sep. 2026
The attacks escalated this summer, with 16 trees — 13 Jeffrey pines and three white firs — poisoned on three occasions between May and early August.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of poisoned

Verb

The Duke of Sussex’s speech was marred by a fault with the teleprompter, forcing him to complete it in two halves.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
The episode was marred some by a glitch in the show’s voting system; viewers weren’t able to choose their favorites on the DWTS website and had to vote by text.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of marred

Verb

Some trees succumbed to insects after being weakened by drought.

— Jessie Schiewe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
More than eight in 10 voters support tapping the state’s flush coffers to bolster human service programs weakened by severe federal cutbacks, according to a new poll commissioned by Connecticut nonprofit social service agencies.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of weakened

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