I. ˈvishēə̇t adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare to vitiate
: vitiated
II. ˈvishēˌāt, usu -ād.+V verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare to vitiate, from vitium fault, vice — more at with
transitive verb
1. : to make incomplete, faulty, or defective : injure the substance or quality of : impair , contaminate , spoil , corrupt
exaggeration vitiates a style of writing
the fox … vitiates his line of scent with the gas fumes on the macadam highways — George Heinold
2.
a. : to debase in moral or aesthetic standards : deprave , pervert
vitiated by luxury
vitiating the public taste
b. obsolete : to violate the chastity of
3. : to make ineffective either wholly or in part : destroy the validity or force of (as an instrument or transaction) : invalidate
fraud vitiates a contract
4. : to make (air) impure by or as if by the accumulation of the products of respiration
intransitive verb
: to become vitiated ; also : to cause vitiation
Synonyms: see debase