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   vitiate

   /ˈvɪʃɪeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of: formal "development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population"
   • ▪ destroy or impair the legal validity of: formal "the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin vitiat- ‘impaired’, from the verb vitiare, from vitium (see vice1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. vitiation noun
   • 2. vitiator noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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