vitiate
verb (used with object)
to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
will vitiate
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future tenseof vitiate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“There is a judicial process underway. The film should not be screened in a manner that will vitiate this process,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2015
I do not know whether the appearance of the head will vitiate the interest of your proposed publication, but I hope not, as the use of it will be of a very different nature.
From Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
A very small error here will vitiate all other astronomical calculations; for the earth's radius, and the radius of its orbit, are the foot-rule and surveyor's chain with which the astronomer measures the heavens.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
If it be true that an ulcer will vitiate the entire body, and endanger the life of the patient, we can see very plainly to what possible danger the spread of illiteracy may lead us.
From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Timothy Thomas Fortune
It will be noted that a burning lamp will vitiate the atmosphere of a closed room by consuming the oxygen and returning in its place carbon dioxide.
From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh
