English Explanatory Dictionary

vitiate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

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.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/ en-us-vitiate.ogg

Word forms

vitiate vitiates vitiating vitiated viciate

Etymology

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).

Synonyms

mess up ruin degrade devalue ball up blight bumble botch bugger up bungle contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mar mishandle mommick pollute put a crimp in queer screw up soil sour spoil stain undo upset turn upside down upset the applecart vitiate abase avile debase debauch depreciate devaluate dirty elevate immoralize lead astray warp adulterate demoralize detort file pervert preposterate seduce sophisticate suborn subvert tamper unmoralize abuse outrage

Related words

vice

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