"vitiate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/ [General-American, UK] Audio: en-us-vitiate.ogg Forms: vitiates [present, singular, third-person], vitiating [participle, present], vitiated [participle, past], vitiated [past]
Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”). Etymology templates: {{PIE word|en|dwóh₁}} PIE word *dwóh₁, {{bor|en|la|vitiātus}} Latin vitiātus Head templates: {{en-verb}} vitiate (third-person singular simple present vitiates, present participle vitiating, simple past and past participle vitiated)
  1. (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something. Tags: transitive Translations (to spoil): развалям (razvaljam) (Bulgarian), повреждам (povreždam) (Bulgarian), bederven (Dutch), pilata (Finnish), გაფუჭება (gapuč̣eba) (Georgian), წახდენა (c̣axdena) (Georgian), beschädigen (German), elront (Hungarian), tönkretesz (Hungarian), utarma (Norwegian Nynorsk), بوزمق (bozmak) (Ottoman Turkish), viciar (Portuguese), по́ртить (pórtitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), испо́ртить (ispórtitʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-vitiate-en-verb-NrxUIC64 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 16 10 12 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 55 15 15 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 63 12 12 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 64 12 12 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 64 11 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 61 13 13 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 64 11 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 59 10 21 10 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 68 12 8 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 70 11 11 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 85 4 6 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 55 17 16 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 64 11 15 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 71 10 10 10 Disambiguation of 'to spoil': 94 2 2 2
  2. (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt. Tags: transitive Translations (to debase or morally corrupt): покварявам (pokvarjavam) (Bulgarian), გარყვნა (garq̇vna) (Georgian), verderben (German), megront (Hungarian), بوزمق (bozmak) (Ottoman Turkish), viciar (Portuguese), развраща́ть (razvraščátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), разврати́ть (razvratítʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-vitiate-en-verb-zsC0DDyN Disambiguation of 'to debase or morally corrupt': 2 95 2 1
  3. (transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape. Tags: archaic, transitive Translations (to violate, to rape): გაუპატიურება (gauṗaṭiureba) (Georgian), megerőszakol (Hungarian), наси́ловать (nasílovatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), изнаси́ловать (iznasílovatʹ) [perfective] (Russian), растлева́ть (rastlevátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), растли́ть (rastlítʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-vitiate-en-verb-S2vYQiaM Disambiguation of 'to violate, to rape': 1 2 96 1
  4. (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate. Tags: transitive Translations (to invalidate): mitätöidä (Finnish), გაუქმება (gaukmeba) (Georgian), érvénytelenít (Hungarian), hatálytalanít (Hungarian), بوزمق (bozmak) (Ottoman Turkish)
    Sense id: en-vitiate-en-verb-MIT80x3Y Disambiguation of 'to invalidate': 7 3 4 86
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: viciate Related terms: vice

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1965, John Fowles, The Magus:",
          "text": "‘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’.",
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      "word": "vice"
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        {
          "ref": "1838, Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 90:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain:",
          "text": "‘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?’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 August, David Roodman, “A Short Note on the Theme of Too Many Instruments”, in Center for Global Development Working Paper 125, page 9:",
          "text": "Unfortunately, as Anderson and Sørenson (1996) and Bowsher (2002) document, instrument proliferation can vitiate the test.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, quoting J. Charney et al., Carbon Dioxide and Climate […] , National Research Council, 1979, quoted in Merchants of Doubt:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something."
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          "reduce"
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          "effectiveness",
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        "(transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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        {
          "ref": "1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "There was excellent blood in his veins—royal stuff; though sadly vitiated, I fear, by the cannibal propensity he nourished in his untutored youth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1890, Leo Tolstoy, The Slavery of Our Times:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To debase or morally corrupt."
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          "morally"
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        "(transitive) To debase or morally corrupt."
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        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "ref": "1965, John Fowles, The Magus:",
          "text": "‘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’.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To violate, to rape."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape."
      ],
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 78:",
          "text": "[…]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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 133:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011 September 2, Dexter Filkins, “Turkey's Thirty-Year Coup”, in The New Yorker:",
          "text": "After the trials, Turkey's secular elite was completely vitiated.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To make something ineffective, to invalidate."
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        "(transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate."
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        "transitive"
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      "word": "viciate"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "razvaljam",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "развалям"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "povreždam",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "повреждам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "bederven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "pilata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gapuč̣eba",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "გაფუჭება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣axdena",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "წახდენა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "beschädigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "elront"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "tönkretesz"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "utarma"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bozmak",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "بوزمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "word": "viciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pórtitʹ",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "по́ртить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ispórtitʹ",
      "sense": "to spoil",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "испо́ртить"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pokvarjavam",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "покварявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "garq̇vna",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "გარყვნა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "verderben"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "megront"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bozmak",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "بوزمق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "word": "viciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razvraščátʹ",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "развраща́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razvratítʹ",
      "sense": "to debase or morally corrupt",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "разврати́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gauṗaṭiureba",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "word": "გაუპატიურება"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "word": "megerőszakol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nasílovatʹ",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "наси́ловать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "iznasílovatʹ",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "изнаси́ловать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastlevátʹ",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "растлева́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastlítʹ",
      "sense": "to violate, to rape",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "растли́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to invalidate",
      "word": "mitätöidä"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaukmeba",
      "sense": "to invalidate",
      "word": "გაუქმება"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to invalidate",
      "word": "érvénytelenít"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to invalidate",
      "word": "hatálytalanít"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "bozmak",
      "sense": "to invalidate",
      "word": "بوزمق"
    }
  ],
  "word": "vitiate"
}

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