vitiate
Example Sentences
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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
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
If it’s something you need to do, why would their response vitiate your determination?
From Washington Post • May 10, 2019
If grief, anger, or excessive joy are able to vitiate secretions, and cause sickness and death, a happy frame of mind, intellectual exertion and moral excellence tend to the perfect health of these secretions.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.