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Meanings of vitiate in English
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.
Usage of vitiate in English
1
Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
2
It is as apt to vitiate the system as to protect it.
3
Encroaching winter and ineffective international commitment may vitiate the humanitarian and redevelopment efforts.
4
Civilization tends to corrupt men, as large towns tend to vitiate the air.
5
Tithes, politics, or something wrong in principle, vitiate every Irish murder.
6
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works.
7
These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?
8
If froward men should refuse this cure, can they vitiate anything but themselves?
9
The author and the public at once vitiate one another.
10
The king was among the first to vitiate his oath, and break the Covenant.
11
And we vitiate that strength when we engage in repression.
12
This assumption would vitiate the promise of his coming made to our first parents.
13
How much of worldly experience would it take to vitiate that integrity in her?
14
A warm body gives rise to air currents which vitiate the accuracy of the weighing.
15
One would say that they have the fatal power to vitiate the atmosphere they breathe.
16
To destroy that order, they vitiate the whole community.
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Frequent collocations
Vitiate through the time