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   Vi·ti·ate

   /ˈviSHēˌāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of: formal "development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population"
   • ▪ destroy or impair the legal validity of: formal "the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin vitiat- ‘impaired’, from the verb vitiare, from vitium (see vice1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. vitiation noun
   • 2. vitiator noun

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   What does vitiate mean?

   • verb (used with object),vi·ti·at·ed, vi·ti·at·ing. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of. to debase; corrupt; pervert. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate: to vitiate a claim.

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   What does Viti mean?

   • To make (a contract, or other legal instrument) ineffective; invalidate. To interfere with; to impair; to render null and void; to cause to have no effect. From vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin vitiō (“damage, spoil"), from vitium (“vice").

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   What happens if something is vitiated?

   • If something is vitiated, its effectiveness is spoiled or weakened. Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between easterners and westerners. But this does not vitiate his scholarship. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 2. 3.

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   Vitiate - To impair, spoil, or degrade the quality, effectiveness, or value of something, typically through the introduction of flaws, errors, or negative elements.