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vitiateverb to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirablebelieved that luxury vitiates even the most principled person blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil, stain, taint, tarnish, touch begrime, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blur, cloud, dirty, discolor, pollute, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, soil, sully, tarabase, cheapen, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, lower, shame, sinkbastardize, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvertcolor, distort, twist cleanse, purifydignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, hallow, magnify, uplift to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection ofnumerous grammatical errors vitiate the effectiveness of your writing blemish, bloody, break, compromise, crab, cripple, cross (up), damage, deface, disfigure, endamage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, spoil deteriorate, enervate, enfeeble, undermine, weakenerode, scour, wash out, wear (away)blight, tarnishdent, ding, dintbotch, gum (up), queerlacerate, wounddisable, hamstring, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, torment, tortureannihilate, bang up, bash, batter, clobber, crush, dash, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, pulverize, raze, ruin, scourge, shatter, smash, tear down, total, waste, wipe out, wreck doctor, fix, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair, revamp cure, heal, help, rectify, rehabilitate, remedyedit, remodel, reviseameliorate, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfect, refine to lower in character, dignity, or qualitya penchant for coarse language vitiates what is otherwise a refined literary style abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debase, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, subvert, warp befoul, begrime, contaminate, defile, dilute, dirty, pollute, taint, thin, water down, weakendescenddisgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, shame, take downblemish, damage, deface, destroy, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, mar, ruin, spoil, stain, tarnish, wreckdepreciate, downgrade elevate, ennoble, uplift dignify, exalt, honorameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, improve, meliorate, perfectclarify, clean, cleanse, purify, refine, restorerespect debase, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debauch, pervert mean to cause deterioration or lowering in quality or character.debase implies a loss of position, worth, value, or dignity.commercialism has debased the holiday vitiate implies a destruction of purity, validity, or effectiveness by allowing entrance of a fault or defect.a foreign policy vitiated by partisanship deprave implies moral deterioration by evil thoughts or influences.the claim that society is depraved by pornography corrupt implies loss of soundness, purity, or integrity.the belief that bureaucratese corrupts the language debauch implies a debasing through sensual indulgence.the long stay on a tropical isle had debauched the ship's crew pervert implies a twisting or distorting from what is natural or normal.perverted the original goals of the institute in 1534 |