vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
have vitiated
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present perfectof vitiate.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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The Pentagon particularly resented Syria's shipments of night-vision goggles, which could have vitiated one of its key technological advantages.
From Time Magazine Archive
By substituting love for charity, the revisers have vitiated the sense, and destroyed the balance of the style.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
The courts sustained this substitution on the ground that it could not possibly have vitiated the election!
From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Samuel Peter Orth
But she appears to have vitiated her clever forgeries by a certain alloy of truth, and it may be that her Beethoven letters are, after all, fictions founded on fact.
From The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 by Rupert Hughes
These forgeries have vitiated many of Collier's most important publications, as his Memoirs of Edward Alleyn, and History of English Dramatic Poetry.
From The Facts About Shakespeare by William Allan Nielson
