Synonyms of vitiating

vitiating

verb

present participle of vitiate

1

as in tainting

to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable

believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tainting
• spoiling
• marring
• poisoning
• darkening
• staining
• touching
• tarnishing
• discrediting
• distorting
• degrading
• corrupting
• lowering
• polluting
• smearing
• blackening
• blemishing
• blurring
• besmirching
• soiling
• clouding
• debasing
• sullying
• subverting
• dirtying
• perverting
• disgracing
• dishonoring
• discoloring
• debauching
• smudging
• shaming
• cheapening
• abasing
• tarring
• depraving
• demeaning
• sinking
• demoralizing
• twisting
• besmearing
• smutting
• fouling
• begriming
• smirching
• bastardizing
• coloring

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• purifying
• cleansing
• elevating
• uplifting
• magnifying
• glorifying
• ennobling
• dignifying
• enshrining
• hallowing

2

as in damaging

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

numerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• marring
• injuring
• compromising
• weakening
• crippling
• impairing
• eroding
• spoiling
• hurting
• harming
• undermining
• destroying
• breaking
• disfiguring
• ruining
• crossing (up)
• defacing
• deteriorating
• shattering
• blemishing
• enervating
• flawing
• bloodying
• endamaging
• wounding
• crabbing
• enfeebling
• battering
• blighting
• wrecking
• tarnishing
• demolishing
• wearing (away)
• scouring
• denting
• disabling
• torturing
• devastating
• smashing
• botching
• annihilating
• mutilating
• crushing
• wasting
• washing out
• tormenting
• pulverizing
• lacerating
• maiming
• decimating
• hamstringing
• mangling
• razing
• gumming (up)
• totalling
• wiping out
• dinting
• desolating
• dinging
• laming
• scourging
• dashing
• bashing
• totaling
• tearing down
• doing in
• queering
• clobbering
• banging up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• fixing
• reconstructing
• rebuilding
• helping
• curing
• remedying
• patching
• rectifying
• renovating
• revamping
• healing
• reconditioning
• mending
• rehabilitating
• improving
• revising
• enhancing
• doctoring
• editing
• remodeling
• ameliorating
• enriching
• perfecting
• refining
• bettering
• meliorating

3

as in degrading

to lower in character, dignity, or quality

a penchant for coarse language vitiates what is otherwise a refined literary style

Synonyms & Similar Words

• degrading
• corrupting
• weakening
• deteriorating
• subverting
• debauching
• diluting
• poisoning
• damaging
• perverting
• destroying
• debasing
• humiliating
• depraving
• ruining
• lessening
• polluting
• cheapening
• demeaning
• demoralizing
• tainting
• contaminating
• profaning
• disgracing
• bastardizing
• warping
• prostituting
• marring
• impairing
• abasing
• harming
• cankering
• shaming
• wrecking
• thinning
• hurting
• dirtying
• spoiling
• defiling
• humbling
• dishonoring
• tarnishing
• befouling
• staining
• descending
• begriming
• defacing
• watering down
• depreciating
• downgrading
• flawing
• taking down
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improving
• elevating
• uplifting
• honoring
• enhancing
• amending
• exalting
• ameliorating
• ennobling
• enriching
• perfecting
• restoring
• bettering
• respecting
• clarifying
• dignifying
• purifying
• cleaning
• refining
• cleansing
• meliorating