vitiate
Verb
Verb Forms: vitiated, vitiating, vitiates
- To impair the quality or value of; to corrupt.
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- make imperfect
- take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
- To debase or morally corrupt.
- To violate, to rape.
- To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
Examples
- A poorly placed tile can vitiate your entire board strategy in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).
Synonyms
corrupt, debase, debauch, deflower, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, impair, invalidate, mar, misdirect, pervert, profane, spoil, subvert, void
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
vitiate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordvitiate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
vitiate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary