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

She accused Mr Zubair of "peddling a fake-narrative to vitiate the atmosphere, cause communal disharmony & cause communal & targeted hatred against me & my family".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 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 said that this approach would vitiate the idea of checks and balances at the heart of congressional oversight.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2020

That he found a kernel of truth can not be denied, but he allowed sources of error to creep in and vitiate his wonderfully suggestive and patient research.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson