transitive verb. To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil.

transitive verb. To corrupt morally; debase: synonym: corrupt.

transitive verb. To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.

To render vicious, faulty, or imperfect; injure the quality or substance of; cause to be defective; impair; spoil; corrupt: as, a vitiated taste.

To cause to fail of effect, either in whole or in part; render invalid or of no effect; destroy the validity or binding force of, as of a legal instrument or a transaction; divest of legal value or authority; invalidate: as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contact; a court is vitiated by the presence of unqualified persons sitting as members of it.

Synonyms Pollute, Corrupt, etc. (see taint), debase, deprave.

transitive verb. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil

transitive verb. To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul.

verb. to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something

verb. to debase or morally corrupt

verb. to violate, to rape

verb. to make something ineffective, to invalidate

verb. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

verb. make imperfect

verb. take away the legal force of or render ineffective

"But though there is an inaccuracy in saying that the freezing of water is due to the loss of its heat, no practical error arises from it; nor will a parallel laxity of expression vitiate our statements respecting the multiplication of effects."

vice  vicious  

alter  change  modify  

abate  abolish  abrogate  adulterate  alloy  

vitiated  vitiates  vitiating