Antonyms for vitiate


Grammar : Verb
Spell : vish-ee-eyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪʃ iˌeɪt


Definition of vitiate

Origin :
  • 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
  • verb cancel
  • verb hurt, corrupt
Example sentences :
  • These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II » by Charles Darwin
  • Minshew interprets the verb deboshe, "to corrupt, make lewde, vitiate."
  • Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle
  • Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
  • Extract from : « Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners » by B.G. Jefferis
  • Above all, do not, by dint of judging, vitiate your faculty of tasting.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 » by Various
  • This, however, did not vitiate the titles of these companies to said lands.
  • Extract from : « Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 2 (of 14), 1899 » by Various
  • Which kind of combustible used for lighting tends most to vitiate the air?
  • Extract from : « The Reason Why » by Anonymous
  • No mere accumulation of material property can vitiate a principle of right.
  • Extract from : « The Itching Palm » by William R Scott
  • They vitiate the action of every law which depends on competition.
  • Extract from : « Essentials of Economic Theory » by John Bates Clark
  • Vitiate not this gift with the lower thought of the art of singing.
  • Extract from : « Sixty Years of California Song » by Margaret Blake-Alverson
  • How much of worldly experience would it take to vitiate that integrity in her?
  • Extract from : « Idolatry » by Julian Hawthorne

Synonyms for vitiate

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