vitiate

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vitiate englannista suomeksi

To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
{{quote-text|en|year=1838|author=Ralph Waldo Emerson|title=An Address delivered before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday evening, 15 July, 1838
(RQ:Lindsay Age of Consent)
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(quote-book)|quotee=(w); et al.|others=National Research Council, 1979|quoted_in=Merchants of Doubt|author=Naomi Oreskes; Erik M. Conway|passage=We have examined with care all known negative feedback mechanisms, such as increase in low or middle cloud amount, and have concluded that the oversimplifications and inaccuracies in the models are not likely to have vitiated the principal conclusions that there will be appreciable warming.
To debase or morally corrupt.
(RQ:Landon Duty)
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
To violate, to rape.
To make something ineffective, to invalidate.
(quote-book)all the hinges of the animal frame are subverted, every animal function is vitiated; the carcass retains but just life enough to make it capable of suffering.
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