to vitiate
- verb
- /ˈvɪʃiˌeɪt/
- Formal
:
corromper
- Excessive indulgence in luxury can vitiate one's sense of moral responsibility.
It's something that actually can vitiate or destroy all the other virtues as it sucks them in.
- It's something that actually can vitiate or destroy all the other virtues as it sucks them in.
Examples
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This not only vitiates their own claim to seriousness; it almost willfully alienates the very groups and regions that Republicans need to attract.
Academic text (2009) -
Wright concluded that the "existence and vitality of the fatherland" require the patriot to "practice and promote those precepts of the Christian moral law without which society is vitiated in its very elements."
Academic text (2010) -
It's something that actually can vitiate or destroy all the other virtues as it sucks them in.
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This guy, Tom L. Johnson, observed about the incident in his memoirs that "charities had vitiated local energies."
Blog text (20) -
Such flat generalization vitiated Deloria's rich source material and reduced human emotion to statistical patterns.
Academic text (2018) -
Massine's work, though he praised its originality, seemed to him vitiated by a constant anxiety to be original.
Academic text (1991) -
He finds her performance "rotten with intellectual vainglory, vitiated in its humanity by the inflation of its feeling."
Academic text (1991) -
And a theology of sin, if allowed to get out of hand, vitiates all human behavior and endeavor at their core and radically undercuts the inherent dignity and goodness of God's human creatures.
Academic text (2003) -
Even in Augustine's own experience, recounted in his Confessions, his will, vitiated for a long time by the effects of sin, made him powerless to devote himself entirely to what by faith he had known to be true.
Academic text (2010) -
Engaging in corrupt practices can vitiate a person's integrity and reputation.
Synonyms
125
4.5
To make someone act dishonestly, often by giving them money
12
7.7
To make someone's morals worse by causing selfish or dishonest behaviour
9
7.9
Cause someone to do things that are morally wrong
3
9.9
To lead someone into too much drinking, sex, or other wrong acts
3
8.4
To make someone behave in a morally wrong way
1
7.5
To make someone lose their sense of right and wrong
1
8.3
To make someone behave badly by giving them wrong ideas
1
8.4
To make people less moral by encouraging bad behaviour
To make something worse by treating it as sexual pleasure
Make something seem mainly about physical or sexual pleasure and lower its moral value
To make something dirty or spoil its reputation
Antonyms
How Corrupt
- Formal
1
8.3
- Formal
125
4.5
20
5.5
146
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
vitiate = viti + ate
Formally analyzable as the stem 'viti-' plus the verb-forming suffix '-ate', but 'viti' is not a standalone English word and the meaning cannot be derived by an average B1 learner from known English morphemes.
Etymology
The word vitiate comes from the Latin vitium, meaning 'fault' or 'vice', and shares the same root as the English vice. So, to vitiate a person's character is to add faults or 'vices', making them morally weak or corrupt.