vitiateverb [ T ]
uk/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/us/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/formalto destroy or damage something:
He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns.
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Deteriorating and making worse
- a step backwards idiom
- a turn of the screw idiom
- add
- afford
- aggravate
- backslide
- compound
- decline
- degrade
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- downhill
- exacerbate
- regress
- retrograde
- retrogress
- run yourself down
- seed
- slip
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