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

With Halloween this weekend, police will be out in force to make sure drivers are not drunk or impaired.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
All the while, violence statistics quietly tally the cost of our impaired vision.

— Michele Decker, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of impaired

Verb

In fact, aducanumab, sold as Aduhelm, was tainted by the controversy and never achieved broad use.

— Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
Arizonans have gone to great lengths to reduce their water consumption and to roll back the industrial pollution that has tainted groundwater in Tucson and surrounding communities for decades.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of tainted

Verb

Handsink nearest kitchen entrance from seating area damaged and peeling off of wall.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
Much of Jewish Iraqi American conceptual artist Michael Rakowitz’s work focuses on re-creating or giving new life to religious materials that were stolen, damaged or destroyed amid war and persecution.

— Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of damaged

Verb

People, information, data, know-how, infrastructure, suppliers and technology are suddenly unavailable or badly degraded.

— Bojan Ilic, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
The durability of these chemicals means they won’t be degraded during the manufacturing process, which can involve hundreds or even thousands of steps.

— Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of degraded

Adjective

Becoming sick from eating spoiled yogurt is uncommon, but yogurt can grow harmful microbes when left out of refrigeration or kept too long.

— Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 31 Oct. 2026
When Harry boosts a USB crypto wallet from a brazen young criminal and spoiled rich kid, Dylan (Will Price), Ben has no idea what to do with it—plugging it into his circa-1995 desktop personal computer sends the machine into a tailspin.

— Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of spoiled

Verb

Morison’s followers called themselves Hygeists and attacked physicians as a monopoly that bled and poisoned its patients, which was not inaccurate in the 1830s.

— Jim Downs, STAT, 30 Oct. 2026
Two young men were arraigned Wednesday for fentanyl distribution conspiracy after a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology was fatally poisoned and another nearly died.

— Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of poisoned

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Similar allegations have marred prominent high school football programs in Southern California in recent years.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
The unveiling event itself was marred when Musk tried to prove that its windows were shatterproof by having metal balls thrown at them - only to leave massive cracks in two of them.

— Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of marred

Verb

After the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act, Alabama Republicans redrew Shomari Figures’ district, cutting its Black voting-age population from 48% to 40%.

— Kim Chandler, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Eisenkot's allies could also try to reverse legislation advanced by Netanyahu's government that critics say weakened Israel's democratic institutions and judicial independence.

— Itay Stern, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of weakened

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