Vitiate

Definition: Vitiate

Vitiate

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

2. Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty".

3. Take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidateas a contract".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vitiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Vitiate \Vi"ti*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Vitiated; present participle verb or noun Vitiating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Vitiate

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Crosswords: Vitiate

Expression using "vitiate": vitiate the air. Additional references.

Albanian

zhvleftësoj (devalue), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, pare, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate), dëmtoj (affect, batter, blast, blight, break, concuss, cripple, damage, damnify, deface, disorder, do harm, harm, hurt, impair, injure, kill, make mischief, mess, nip, prejudice, scathe, spoil, wrench). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, void). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развалям (alloy, bitch, blunder, break up, change, contaminate, corrupt, deprave, disaffirm, injure, louse up, mangle, mess about, mess around, muddle, murder, mutilate, nip, perish, queer, spoil, uglify, undo), опорочавам (corrupt, defile, pervert), замърсявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, foul up, pollute, taint), правя невалиден (void), правя недействителен (flaw, void), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble), понижавам силата на, понижавам качеството на (debase). (various references)

Czech

zrušit (abolish, abrogate, annul, break off, call off, cancel, close down, countermand, destroy, disannul, discontinue, dissolve, do away with, invalidate, nullify, overturn, quash, raise, repeal, rescind, revers, reverse, revoke, set aside, stop, strike off, sweep, take off, undo, unmake, void, withdraw), porušit (blemish, break, disobey, disturb, infringe, upset, violate), pokazit (blemish, damage, hurt, ruin, unsettle). (various references)

Farsi 

فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Taint), فاسدشدن (Canker, Decay, Degenerate, Gangrene, Putrefy, Spoil), معیوب ساختن (Defect), ناپاک ساختن , تباه کردن (Deprave, Destroy, Gangrene), تباه شدن , خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Wrack, Wreck), بلااثرکردن (Negate). (various references)

French

vicier. (various references)

German

beeinträchtigen (affect, blemish, curb, damage, detract from, dislocate, distort, disturb, harm, impair, interfere with, reduce, restrict, spoil, to affect, warp). (various references)

Greek 

φθείρω (corruptible, spoil, waste, wear, wear away, wear down, wear out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלקל (blight, break down, bungle, foul up, louse, muff, spoil), ל�"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, mangle, pervert, spoil). (various references)

Hungarian

megront (bewitch, blight, corrupt, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, infect, pervert, pollute, seduce, to canker, to debauch, to deprave, to deteriorate, to hex, to pervert, to seduce sy, to taint, to violate, to vitiate, to voodoo, to warp), megfertõz (contaminate, infect, poison, pollute, taint), hatálytalan (invalid, null, of no effect, unavailable). (various references)

Italian

viziare (addle, pamper, ruin, spoil, to spoil). (various references)

Pig Latin

itiatevay.(various references)

Portuguese

viciar (addict, debauch, spoil, taint), poluir (contaminate, defile, foul, maculate, pollute, profane, soil), invalidar (annul, break, invalidate, irritate, negate, nullify, quash, stultify, whittle down), falsificar (adulterate, bast, counterfeit, doctor, dope, dose, fake, falsify, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, pirate, tamper, wangle), corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, taint), contaminar (attaint, contaminate, infect, inoculate, taint). (various references)

Romanian

vicia (debauch, infect, taint), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, wreck), spurca (besmear, besmirch, defile, desecrate, dirty, smear, smirch, soil, taint), invalida un contract, corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, taint), anula (abate, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, defeat, disaffirm, disannul, discharge, dissolve, negate, negative, nullify, overrule, quash, recall, remit, render null, repeal, rescind, reverse, undo, vacate). (various references)

Russian 

портить (boggle, contaminate, corrupt, do damage, mung, munge, queer, spoil, tamper, thrash, waste, welk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, ruin, screw up, spoil, wrack), izopačiti (distort, garble, pervert). (various references)

Spanish

viciar (annul). (various references)

Swedish

fördärva (corrupt, deflower, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, mar, perish, pervert, queer, ruin, undo). (various references)

Turkish

saptırmak (angle, call away, color, colour, contort, deflect, demotivate, detour, deviate, distort, draw off, garble, gerrymander, lead away, reroute, strain, sway, swerve, veer, veer round, warp, wring), kirletmek (bedaub, befoul, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish), geçersiz kılmak (cancel, debauch, invalidate, nullify, overrule, repeal, rescind), etkisini azaltmak (cushion, dilute, make nonsense of, spend, stultify), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, spoil). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, filth, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert), робити недійсним (invalidate, null, nullify), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blemish, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, waste). (various references)

vitio. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "vitiate": vitiated, vitiates. (additional references)

Words ending with "vitiate": novitiate. (additional references)

Words containing "vitiate": novitiates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Vitiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iviato, viatiate, vitia. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: vittae.

-2 letters: vitae, vitta.

-3 letters: tate, teat, titi, vita.

-4 letters: ait, ate, att, ave, eat, eta, tae, tat, tav, tea, tet, tie, vat, vet, via, vie.

-5 letters: ae, ai, at, et, it, ta, ti.

+1 letter: titivate, vitiated, vitiates.

+2 letters: agitative, factitive, imitative, iterative, novitiate, partitive, tantivies, titivated, titivates, tittivate, vastities.

+3 letters: activities, adventitia, appetitive, cogitative, creativity, estimative, estivating, estivation, excitative, imputative, inactivate, initiative, irritative, levitating, levitation, limitative, meditative, mitigative, motivative, nativities, negativist, negativity, novitiates, reactivity, recitative, recitativi, recitativo, relativist, relativity, tittivated, tittivates, transitive, vaticinate, vitalities.

+4 letters: adventitial, adventitias, aestivating, aestivation, affectivity, antitussive, arbitrative, attributive, captivities, distractive, estivations, factitively, gravitative, imitatively, inactivated, inactivates, inattentive, initiatives, instigative, integrative, interactive, investigate, iteratively, levitations, negativists, partitively, qualitative, recitatives, recitativos, reiterative, relativists, retaliative, stimulative, terminative, titillative, triumvirate, vaticinated, vaticinates, ventilating, ventilation, versatility, verticality, vinaigrette.