Vitiate

Definition of Vitiate

Vi´ti`ate
v. t.1.To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
[imp. & p. p. Vitiated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitiating.]
A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion.
- South.
Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds.
- Burke.
This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers.
- Garth.
2.To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.

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