vitiating
present participle ofvitiate
vitiate
verb[T]
formaluk/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/us/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/todestroyordamagesomething:
He said that Americanmilitarypowershould never again be vitiated bypoliticalconcerns.
Deteriorating and making worse
- add
- admin
- aggravate
- backslide
- be (all) downhillidiom
- compound
- debase
- degrade
- deterioration
- devaluation
- devalue
- disintegrate
- dog
- downgrade
- regress
- regression
- regressive
- relapse
- retrograde
- retrogress
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Destroying and demolishing
Examplesofvitiating
vitiating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The only factor that may have avitiatinginfluence is the progressively larger female cohorts entering the child-bearing years.
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Out of an abundance of caution, let us revisit the charge ofvitiatinglegislative authority.
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Presumably,vitiatinga blame attribution through excuses will also avoid the negative affective sequelae of blame attributions and result in less self- or other-directed negative affect.
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Machine learning experiments on grammar induction, particularly those involving unsupervised learning, can contribute important insights into the necessary conditions for language acquisition, at the least byvitiatingpoverty-of-stimulus arguments.
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Hemmed in by opposition to his first attempts to alter the system,9 the amir tried to maintain the letter of the constitution whilevitiatingits spirit.
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I ask that they be brought in at some stage withoutvitiatingthe principle which we apply for the country as a whole.
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It just happens that in the present case the one isvitiatingthe other.
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He spoke of the danger ofvitiatingcomparisons with previous years.
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The advice of all the technicians on the subject is that the acreage both for wheat and coarse grains can be obtained withoutvitiatingthe rules of good husbandry.
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If you raise them above their biological level and plant them on the community, you run the risk ofvitiatingthe race by the increase of their defects.
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It said constant "pressure for increase" wasvitiatingthe business, and that agents were goaded to pile on policy after policy irrespective of the capacity of the public to pay.
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If the existence or effect of thevitiatingfactor is not recognised by the defendant, then he would not be dishonest.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Additional rooms may be taken during the year withoutvitiatingthe qualification.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He held that the same principle should apply even where thevitiatingfactor was something else: undue influence or duress, for example.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In fact, there appears to be no control resulting in the emergence of touts as major players,vitiatingthe entire programme. 13.
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