Front | vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\ |
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Back | verb 1. To impair or spoil the effectiveness of. 2. To corrupt. [From Latin vitiare (to spoil, injure), from vitium (blemish). Earliest recorded use: 1534.] "The peaceful atmosphere at the school was vitiated as a police constable in an inebriated condition created a scene there." |
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