Definitions for vitiate

vitiate vi·ti·ate

Spelling: [vish-ee-eyt]
IPA: /ˈvɪʃ iˌeɪt/

Vitiate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in vitiate (aeiittv).

Definitions for vitiate

verb (used with object)

  1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
  2. to impair or weaken the effectiveness of.
  3. to debase; corrupt; pervert.
  4. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate:

Origin of vitiate

1525-35; Latin vitiātus, past participle of vitiāre to spoil, derivative of vitium blemish, vice1 + -ātus -ate1

Examples for vitiate

They vitiate the action of every law which depends on competition.

vitiate not this gift with the lower thought of the art of singing.

Minshew interprets the verb deboshe, "to corrupt, make lewde, vitiate."

Above all, do not, by dint of judging, vitiate your faculty of tasting.

Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.

No mere accumulation of material property can vitiate a principle of right.

The result will be provisions that are watered down or loopholes that vitiate key provisions altogether.

These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?

This, however, did not vitiate the titles of these companies to said lands.

Which kind of combustible used for lighting tends most to vitiate the air?

Word Value for vitiate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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