vitiated 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of vitiatednext
as in impaired

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vitiated

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verb

past tense of vitiate
1
as in tainted
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable believed that luxury vitiates even the most principled person

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2
as in damaged
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of numerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing

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3
as in degraded
to lower in character, dignity, or quality a penchant for coarse language vitiates what is otherwise a refined literary style

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitiated
  1. impaired
  2. tainted
  3. degraded
  4. poisoned
  5. marred
  6. weakened
  7. injured
  8. broken
Adjective
  • She was charged with driving while intoxicated as a first offense and driving while impaired.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Dec. 2024
  • State police said the trooper found that the vehicle’s registration was expired and that the driver showed signs of being impaired.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of impaired
Verb
  • Amazon objected to the 2022 warehouse election results, alleging the Amazon Labor Union and the federal labor board had tainted the vote.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some see all Russians and their cultural heritage as irredeemably tainted by imperial thinking, a view heavily influenced by post-colonial studies in American academia.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of tainted
Verb
  • When the tile degraded, the gaps were filled in with livestock bones.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2024
  • That’s good news, considering phosphorous pollution has degraded water quality in the Everglades for decades and remains a challenge.
    Rebecca Blackwell, Sun Sentinel, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of degraded
Verb
  • Poisoned Data, Poisoned Outcomes One of the biggest dangers in the AI supply chain is poisoned training data.
    Steve Wilson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Haunting pictures of rows of small bodies covered in white sheets—some of the 400 children who were poisoned in the attack—became emblematic of the Assad regime’s cruelty.
    Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of poisoned
Verb
  • In a Middle East marred by seemingly endless conflict and disparate ideologies, there exists an undercurrent of hope—a movement toward connection, collaboration, and shared prosperity.
    Hessie Jones, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • This marks a disappointing end to a season that has been marred by injuries, including Trent Williams' ankle injury, which has kept him out for the past four games.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of marred
Verb
  • Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nissan in particular has struggled recently, especially in the key American market, where sales have weakened.
    Rafael Nam, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The new tactic comes as Iran's influence has severely weakened in the Middle East amid Israel's deadly response to devastating attacks from Hamas and Hezbollah, both Iranian proxies.
    Louis Casiano, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of weakened
Verb
  • The pier was closed to the public at the time of the collapse and no bystanders were injured.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Indianapolis Fire Department confirmed that no one was injured in the fire.
    Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of injured
Adjective
  • All these and more can be seen below in a map of the 57 shots the 23-year-old former Arsenal academy youngster faced in the league before that untimely broken wrist against Mansfield Town on November 9.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • But the supply chains were so broken because of the pandemic.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of broken
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