VITIATING Synonyms: 174 Similar and Opposite Words

vitiating

verb

present participle of vitiate

as in tainting

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

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as in damaging

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

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as in degrading

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

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Recent Examples of vitiating In the three years since, the Court has delivered even more wins for the movement—rulings undercutting the rights of trans people and immigrants, vitiating the Voting Rights Act, and expanding Presidential power. — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

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Several homeowners near Meta’s massive Newton County data center have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech company and others of tainting their water and destroying their rural way of life.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Sep. 2026
For all intents and purposes, an unknown actor can wade unburdened into the depths of Bond, able to transform without a viewer’s prior expectation tainting the image of 007.

— Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 10 July 2026

Definition of tainting

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David Hearn, the former Olympics canoeist accused of damaging Washington's Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before prosecutors dropped the case, cannot be recharged, a judge has ruled.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, on the charging case, iFixit struggled to access its components without damaging the external plastic.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of damaging

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Germany's Constitutional Court ruled last year that the extradition was unlawful because it could not be guaranteed that the defendant would not be subject to inhumane or degrading treatment in Hungarian custody.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 1 Oct. 2026
Moscow no longer hopes to win by merely capturing cities, or even by degrading Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of degrading

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The loss was Boston’s eighth in 12 games, spoiling Chad Tracy’s first game as manager after the club named him its 49th in team history.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2026
That’s 10 games against teams that don’t have much to play for, aside from spoiling Toronto’s season.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of spoiling

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The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life’s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026
There has been no evidence of widespread fraud marring American elections.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of marring

Verb

And by engaging with these powerful militaries, the group reinforced its self-image as a major regional player that was uniquely capable of liberating the Muslim world from corrupting American and Israeli influence.

— April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026
Gadgets with screens of any size have long been allegedly melting, rotting, and/or corrupting the brains of youths for decades.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of corrupting

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Could something so commonplace really be slowly poisoning people?

— Sean McCann, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
The court heard how the former nurse, now 36, attacked babies in her care by administering air into their blood and stomachs, overfeeding them with milk, physically assaulting them and poisoning them with insulin.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of poisoning

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North Korean mines have occasionally been carried into South Korea by swollen rivers, killing or injuring civilians.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Hall, 25, is considered week-to-week after injuring his groin in Sunday’s 31-24 loss to the Lions, sources confirmed.

— Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

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