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What does vitiate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word vitiate? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something
  2. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt
  3. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape
  4. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate
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The fraud required to vitiate consent for that offence must carry with it the risk of serious harm.
The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.
Under the old law a mistake would vitiate the expert's determination if it could be shown that it affected the result.
The existence of fraud should not vitiate consent unless there is a significant risk of serious harm.
Multiple entitlements vitiate demands based on prior existence, occupance, use and discovery.
That the singer, Cervantes' Don Quixote, is certainly delusional, possibly mad, doesn't vitiate the song's potency.

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