Usually means: Impair the quality or effectiveness.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word vitiate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vitiate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vitiate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vitiate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vitiate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vitiate: Vocabulary.com
  6. vitiate: Wordnik
  7. vitiate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vitiate: Wiktionary
  9. vitiate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vitiate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vitiate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vitiate: Dictionary.com
  13. vitiate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Vitiate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vitiate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vitiate: Rhymezone
  17. Vitiate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vitiate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. vitiate: Free Dictionary
  20. vitiate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. vitiate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. vitiate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. vitiate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vitiate: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  4. vitiate: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vitiate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vitiate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See vitiated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
verb:  (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To violate, to rape.
verb:  (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.

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