vitiate

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Giving that up, Professor Bale said, would vitiate the ideological rationale of her government and potentially turn her into a lame-duck leader until the next election, which she will have to call by early 2025.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2021

He argued that this approach would vitiate the idea of checks and balances that’s at the heart of congressional oversight.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2020

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2019

The fastidious delicacy of the writers of modern latinity could not endure to vitiate their classical purity by the Gothic names of their heroes, and of the barbarous localities where memorable transactions had occurred.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac