vitiate.
To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).
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