Crossword-Solution: VITIATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vitiate | v. t. | 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. |
| Vitiate | v. t. | 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. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “VITIATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Make faulty | 1 answer |
| Impair the quality of | 1 answer |
| Reduce the value of | 2 answers |
| Make less effective | 4 answers |
| Render ineffective | 5 answers |
| bastardize | 7 answers |
| circumduct | 9 answers |
| BASTARDISE | 10 answers |
| disannul | 10 answers |
| Make ineffective. | 10 answers |
| bestialize | 13 answers |
| ANIMALISE | 15 answers |
| brutalize | 19 answers |
| Canker | 19 answers |
| brutalise | 21 answers |
| Extirpate | 22 answers |
| blot out | 25 answers |
| bestialise | 27 answers |
| Abase | 28 answers |
| sophisticate | 30 answers |
| Mutilate | 34 answers |
| vacate | 42 answers |
| Disallow | 44 answers |
| Injure | 48 answers |
| Debase | 51 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| Weaken | 65 answers |
| Wreck | 66 answers |
| Corrupt | 76 answers |
| Spoil | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with VITIATE (5)
Priestley was considered unsound in his views of the Trinity; it was evidently suspected that this might vitiate his astronomical observations; he was rejected, and the expedition crippled.
The least admixture of a lie—for example, the taint of vanity, any attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance—will instantly vitiate the effect.
With the aid of scenery, fine dresses, and music, and the very false notions they convey, they vitiate the public taste, not knowing, "-----------vulgaires rimeurs Quelle force ont les arts pour demolir les moeurs." In the penny theatres that abound in the poor and populous districts of London, and which are chiefly frequented by striplings of idle and dissolute habits, tales of thieves and murderers are more admired, and draw more crowded audiences, than any other species of representation.
And you will vitiate the experiment if you make the slightest attempt to abort it into some fancy figure of your own: for example, your notion of a good man or a womanly woman.
The young are to be brought up in happy surroundings, out of the way of sights or sounds which may hurt the character or vitiate the taste.
Quotes with VITIATE (2)
Words are too awful an instrument for good and evil to be trifled with: they hold above all other external powers a dominion over thoughts. If words be not (recurring to a metaphor before used) an incarnation of the thought but only a clothing for it, then surely will they prove an ill gift; such a one as those poisoned vestments, read of in the stories of superstitious times, which had power to consume and to alienate from his right mind the victim who put them on. Language,…
President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1970–2013).