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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
vitiate
 
SYLLABICATION:vi·ti·ate
PRONUNCIATION:  vsh-t
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: vi·ti·at·ed, vi·ti·at·ing, vi·ti·ates
1. To reduce the value or impair the quality of. 2. To corrupt morally; debase. 3. To make ineffective; invalidate. See synonyms at corrupt.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin vitire, vitit-, from vitium, fault.
OTHER FORMS:viti·a·ble (vsh--bl) —ADJECTIVE
viti·ation —NOUN
viti·ator —NOUN
 
 
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