vitiate

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
  2. (transitive) To debase or morally corrupt.
  3. (archaic, transitive) To violate, to rape.
  4. (transitive) To make something ineffective, to invalidate.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/
Etimologie (Engels)

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Latin vitiātus, the perfect passive participle of vitiō (“damage, spoil”), from vitium (“vice”).

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