vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
had vitiated
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past perfectof vitiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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In the view of dissidents like Smith, however, news photography had vitiated itself through overproduction.
From Time Magazine Archive
The blood tainted with impurities had vitiated the nervous system.
From Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac
Moreover, the desire to make intricately beautiful, right enough in itself, had vitiated, as it was bound to do, the taste of architect and builder.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw
The immense agglomeration had vitiated the atmosphere of the valley.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
What extenuations or omissions had vitiated his former or recent narrative; how far his actual performances were congenial with the deed which was now to be perpetrated, I knew not.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
