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单词 vitiate
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Definition of vitiate in English:

vitiate

verb ˈvɪʃɪeɪtˈvɪʃiˌeɪt
[with object]formal
  • 1Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

    development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While O'Herlihy's panel gives his show more depth, the comedy programme presented by Keane and Taylor is vitiated by a cacophony of voices.
    • That the singer, Cervantes' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.
    • To what extent will imperfect, but still good, administration vitiate the efficiency properties of the tax?
    • The way is never neglected, it simply is not exploited; for it is to De Sica's purpose to move in tandem with unelliptical life as closely as he dares without vitiating motion-picture technique altogether.
    • This property of addictive desires distorts the phenomenological field of agency in such a way that my powers of reflective self-control are vitiated but not destroyed.
    • But in this same answer, that great saint recounts another admirable example of a great zeal, proceeding from a very good soul, which was however spoilt and vitiated by the excess of anger which it had stirred up.
    • Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.
    • The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
    • This kind of meaningless rhetoric vitiates Craven's discussion of the issue.
    • In spite of our capacity for good, we seem caught in a web of evil that vitiates everything we do. Even what is basically good can be distorted.
    • In a situation that involves a plurality of faiths, a common dress code thus strikes me as a medium of secular arbitration, a function that is vitiated by a blatant divergence from the uniform.
    • Might this vitiate the importance of the cover?
    Synonyms
    ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast
    1. 1.1 Destroy or impair the legal validity of.
      the insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Finally, an apparently valid consent may be vitiated if it is obtained by fraud, which includes cases where a professional deliberately withholds information in bad faith, or by misrepresenting the nature of the proposed care.
      • Under the old law a mistake would vitiate the expert's determination if it could be shown that it affected the result.
      • There is nothing in the law which would allow me to vitiate a fairly negotiated contract for lawful purposes.
      • The claimants submit that that is a decision to which no reasonable planning authority could come and it vitiates the defendant's consideration of the planning application.
      • I am not satisfied that the first or third of those matters affected the Judge's judgment to the point where any error should vitiate that judgment.
      • The error has the consequence of vitiating the inspector's finding that the development does not accord with the policy.
      • It is said on behalf of the Claimant that this vitiated the decision-making process because it was misleading.
      • Of course the appellate tribunal also has the power to overturn the Commissioners' conclusion on the ground of an error of law, but only if that error vitiates the conclusion.
      • The judge's discretion was therefore vitiated because the merits of any defence were considerably greater than he had been led to believe.
      • This does not mean that every deviation from procedural regularity and legal correctness vitiates a jury's verdict of guilty.
      • As a matter of natural justice and procedural fairness, if his departure is so radical as to vitiate the agreement, that would have to be pursued.
      • For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
      • There must be present some factor which could in law be regarded as coercion of will so as to vitiate consent.
      • It is our submission that the course adopted by the learned trial judge has vitiated the verdict in a number of ways.
      • As with any other contracts, compromises or consent orders may be vitiated by a common mistake of law.
      • One important issue is when an apparent consent will be vitiated because it was given under duress or without full knowledge of the material facts.
      • In the first place the market manager's presence and hearsay evidence vitiated proceedings, it being against natural justice for a prosecutor to be present during deliberations.
      • And why should he be made bankrupt if his apparent inability to pay is vitiated by the counterclaim or cross-demand?
      • There is abundant authority to show that such frauds as these vitiate consent both in the case of rape and in the case of indecent assault.
      • Is not your problem that the sentencing judge made mistakes which vitiated his decision and enabled the Court of Criminal Appeal to exercise its own discretion?
      Synonyms
      put an end to, do away with, get rid of, scrap, end, stop, terminate, eradicate, eliminate, exterminate, destroy, annihilate, stamp out, obliterate, wipe out, extinguish, quash, expunge, extirpate

Derivatives

  • vitiation

  • noun vɪʃɪˈeɪʃ(ə)nˌvɪʃiˈeɪʃ(ə)n
    formal
    • A bad guy is no longer simply the opposite of ‘good guy;’ the ensuing but signals the vitiation of the villainous sting of depravity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Economic duress is unlikely to lead to the vitiation of banking transactions.
      • Earlier art, music, or literature could reinterpret the Passion over and over again without vitiation.
      • While not leading to automatic vitiation of the warrant, there remains the need to protect the prior authorization process.
  • vitiator

  • noun
    formal
    • Overindulgence was the vitiator of Junior's previously sweet disposition.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They always intend to derive political mileage and are true vitiators of India's progress.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin vitiat- 'impaired', from the verb vitiare, from vitium (see vice1).

Rhymes

initiate, officiate, propitiate
 
 

Definition of vitiate in US English:

vitiate

verbˈvɪʃiˌeɪtˈviSHēˌāt
[with object]formal
  • 1Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

    development programs have been vitiated by the rise in population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This property of addictive desires distorts the phenomenological field of agency in such a way that my powers of reflective self-control are vitiated but not destroyed.
    • While O'Herlihy's panel gives his show more depth, the comedy programme presented by Keane and Taylor is vitiated by a cacophony of voices.
    • The way is never neglected, it simply is not exploited; for it is to De Sica's purpose to move in tandem with unelliptical life as closely as he dares without vitiating motion-picture technique altogether.
    • In spite of our capacity for good, we seem caught in a web of evil that vitiates everything we do. Even what is basically good can be distorted.
    • The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
    • To what extent will imperfect, but still good, administration vitiate the efficiency properties of the tax?
    • Might this vitiate the importance of the cover?
    • Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.
    • This kind of meaningless rhetoric vitiates Craven's discussion of the issue.
    • In a situation that involves a plurality of faiths, a common dress code thus strikes me as a medium of secular arbitration, a function that is vitiated by a blatant divergence from the uniform.
    • But in this same answer, that great saint recounts another admirable example of a great zeal, proceeding from a very good soul, which was however spoilt and vitiated by the excess of anger which it had stirred up.
    • That the singer, Cervantes' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.
    Synonyms
    ruin, wreck, destroy, upset, undo, mess up, make a mess of, dash, sabotage, scupper, scotch, torpedo, blast
    1. 1.1 Destroy or impair the legal validity of.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As with any other contracts, compromises or consent orders may be vitiated by a common mistake of law.
      • As a matter of natural justice and procedural fairness, if his departure is so radical as to vitiate the agreement, that would have to be pursued.
      • This does not mean that every deviation from procedural regularity and legal correctness vitiates a jury's verdict of guilty.
      • In the first place the market manager's presence and hearsay evidence vitiated proceedings, it being against natural justice for a prosecutor to be present during deliberations.
      • There must be present some factor which could in law be regarded as coercion of will so as to vitiate consent.
      • I am not satisfied that the first or third of those matters affected the Judge's judgment to the point where any error should vitiate that judgment.
      • There is nothing in the law which would allow me to vitiate a fairly negotiated contract for lawful purposes.
      • Under the old law a mistake would vitiate the expert's determination if it could be shown that it affected the result.
      • The judge's discretion was therefore vitiated because the merits of any defence were considerably greater than he had been led to believe.
      • It is our submission that the course adopted by the learned trial judge has vitiated the verdict in a number of ways.
      • Is not your problem that the sentencing judge made mistakes which vitiated his decision and enabled the Court of Criminal Appeal to exercise its own discretion?
      • There is abundant authority to show that such frauds as these vitiate consent both in the case of rape and in the case of indecent assault.
      • And why should he be made bankrupt if his apparent inability to pay is vitiated by the counterclaim or cross-demand?
      • For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
      • The error has the consequence of vitiating the inspector's finding that the development does not accord with the policy.
      • Finally, an apparently valid consent may be vitiated if it is obtained by fraud, which includes cases where a professional deliberately withholds information in bad faith, or by misrepresenting the nature of the proposed care.
      • Of course the appellate tribunal also has the power to overturn the Commissioners' conclusion on the ground of an error of law, but only if that error vitiates the conclusion.
      • It is said on behalf of the Claimant that this vitiated the decision-making process because it was misleading.
      • One important issue is when an apparent consent will be vitiated because it was given under duress or without full knowledge of the material facts.
      • The claimants submit that that is a decision to which no reasonable planning authority could come and it vitiates the defendant's consideration of the planning application.
      Synonyms
      put an end to, do away with, get rid of, scrap, end, stop, terminate, eradicate, eliminate, exterminate, destroy, annihilate, stamp out, obliterate, wipe out, extinguish, quash, expunge, extirpate

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin vitiat- ‘impaired’, from the verb vitiare, from vitium (see vice).

 
 
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