vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
has vitiated
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present perfectof vitiate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This love of privilege has vitiated the English administration in Ireland in more ways than one.
From England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey
He has vitiated his contract by publicly refusing to do his work.
From Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade
This is among the first notices of that artificial style which has vitiated our native idiom, substituting for its purity an affected delicacy, and for its vigour profuse ornament.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
The definition has at least the merit of being free from certain arbitrary psychologizing that has vitiated many earlier attempts at the problem.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
If any one thus denies the determination of natural phenomena at one such point, he has vitiated the entire scientific viewpoint.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
