Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to vitiate
Participle: vitiated
Gerund: vitiating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | vitiate |
| you | vitiate |
| he;she;it | vitiates |
| we | vitiate |
| you | vitiate |
| they | vitiate |
Perfect
| I | have vitiated |
| you | have vitiated |
| he;she;it | has vitiated |
| we | have vitiated |
| you | have vitiated |
| they | have vitiated |
Past
| I | vitiated |
| you | vitiated |
| he;she;it | vitiated |
| we | vitiated |
| you | vitiated |
| they | vitiated |
Pluperfect
| I | had vitiated |
| you | had vitiated |
| he;she;it | had vitiated |
| we | had vitiated |
| you | had vitiated |
| they | had vitiated |
Future
| I | will vitiate |
| you | will vitiate |
| he;she;it | will vitiate |
| we | will vitiate |
| you | will vitiate |
| they | will vitiate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have vitiated |
| you | will have vitiated |
| he;she;it | will have vitiated |
| we | will have vitiated |
| you | will have vitiated |
| they | will have vitiated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | vitiate |
| you | vitiate |
| he;she;it | vitiate |
| we | vitiate |
| you | vitiate |
| they | vitiate |
Perfect
| I | have vitiated |
| you | have vitiated |
| he;she;it | have vitiated |
| we | have vitiated |
| you | have vitiated |
| they | have vitiated |
Imperfect
| I | vitiated |
| you | vitiated |
| he;she;it | vitiated |
| we | vitiated |
| you | vitiated |
| they | vitiated |
Pluperfect
| I | had vitiated |
| you | had vitiated |
| he;she;it | had vitiated |
| we | had vitiated |
| you | had vitiated |
| they | had vitiated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would vitiate |
| you | would vitiate |
| he;she;it | would vitiate |
| we | would vitiate |
| you | would vitiate |
| they | would vitiate |
Perfect
| I | would have vitiated |
| you | would have vitiated |
| he;she;it | would have vitiated |
| we | would have vitiated |
| you | would have vitiated |
| they | would have vitiated |
Imperative
| you | vitiate |
| we | Let's vitiate |
| you | vitiate |
Verbs conjugated like 'vitiate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'vitiate'
viciate,
citrate,
evitate,
filiate,
initiate,
litigate,
miniate,
mitigate,
nitrate,
satiate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make or render worse
- adulterate, aggravate, canker, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degrade, deteriorate, envenom, exacerbate, impair, infect, pejorate, set back, stain, weaken
- spoil
- impair, degrade, reduce, revoke, devaluate, annul, adulterate, contaminate
- corrupt
- pervert, deprave, rot, debase, spoil, blight, vulgarize, defile
Antonyms
- spoil
- improve, enrich, better, replenish
- corrupt
- uncorrupt, honest, pure, undefiled
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1534, from L.
vitiatus, pp. of
vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from
vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (1)).
2. PIE word
3. *dwóh₁
4. From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).
Verbs referencing "vitiate"
Portuguese
viciar, Italian
viziare.
Sample Sentences
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The least admixture of a lie, -- for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance, -- will instantly vitiate the effect. [1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838:]
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Such diversion as Podson could extort from his isolation was soon vitiated by repetition. He surfed. He sun-baked - with discretion till his skin had peeled and given him a harder cuticle. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90:]
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‘Mr Rose,’ says the Physician, ‘this man was brought to us from Russia. Precisely such a case of vitiated judgment as I describe at length in my Treatise on Madness. Mayhap you have read it?’ [1997, Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain:]
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Unfortunately, as Anderson and Sørenson (1996) and Bowsher (2002) document, instrument proliferation can vitiate the test. [2007 August, David Roodman, “A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments”, in Center for Global Development Working Paper 125, page 9:]
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We have examined with care all known negative feedback mechanisms, such as increase in low or middle cloud amount, and have concluded that the oversimplifications and inaccuracies in the models are not likely to have vitiated the principal conclusions that there will be appreciable warming. [2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting J. Charney et al., Carbon Dioxide and Climate […] , National Research Council, 1979, quoted in Merchants of Doubt:]
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Dissolute and vitiated alike, they confided in, and ever acted in mutual concert with each other's plans, according to the deep subtleties of their reasonings, which linked them together by some secret spell. [1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:]
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There was excellent blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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The robber does not intentionally vitiate people, but the governments, to accomplish their ends, vitiate whole generations from childhood to manhood with false religions and patriotic instruction. [1890, Leo Tolstoy, The Slavery of Our Times:]
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The man is corrupted also, for he has become master, ruling over the one who is his God-given equal. The subordination of female to male signifies their shared sin. This sin vitiates all relationships: between animals and human beings; […] [1973, Phyllis Trible, “Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, volume 41, number 1, page 41:]
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‘Crush the cockatrice,’ he groaned, from his death-cell. ‘I am dead in law’ – but of the girl he denied that he had ‘attempted to vitiate her at Nine years old’; for ‘upon the word of a dying man, both her Eyes did see, and her Hands did act in all that was done’. [1965, John Fowles, The Magus:]
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[…]all the hinges of the animal frame are subverted, every animal function is vitiated; the carcass retains but just life enough to make it capable of suffering. [1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 78:]
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He went over his canvases with disgust and anger, unable to see virtue in any one of them. Even his sacred Oyster Girl went back on him. The creature of a vitiated æstheticism, he could only suppose that conceit had played an abominable trick on his eyesight. [1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 133:]
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After the trials, Turkey's secular elite was completely vitiated. [2011 September 2, Dexter Filkins, “Turkey's Thirty-Year Coup”, in The New Yorker:]