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
Ed had been a handsome boy, but maturity had vitiated his good looks.
From Heart of the Sunset by Rex Ellingwood Beach
No wonder that in spite of all reverses, and until absorption of foreign poisons had vitiated the blood of her sons or fratricidal strife had spilled it, Rome saw the world at her feet.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
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
The blood tainted with impurities had vitiated the nervous system.
From Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac
