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41vitiate — (v.) 1530s, from L. vitiatus, pp. of vitiare to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt, from vitium fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice (see VICE (Cf. vice) (1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating …
42vitiate — [[t]vɪ̱ʃieɪt[/t]] vitiates, vitiating, vitiated VERB If something is vitiated, its effectiveness is spoiled or weakened. [FORMAL] [be V ed] Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between easterners and westerners …
43infectious — a. 1. Contagious, pestilential, pestiferous, catching. 2. Contaminating, corrupting, vitiating, poisoning, defiling, polluting …
44infective — *infectious Analogous words: contaminating, tainting, polluting, defiling (see CONTAMINATE): corrupting, vitiating (see DEBASE): *poisonous, virulent, toxic, mephitic Contrasted words: salutary, hygienic, *healthful, wholesome …
45neutralize — neutralize, counteract, negative are comparable when they mean to make something inoperative or ineffective usually by means of an opposite force, influence, or effect. Neutralize implies an equalizing, making ineffectual or inoperative, or… …
46hurtful — adj 1. injurious, harmful, detrimental, inimical, deleterious, damaging, endamaging, mischievous; destructive, baneful, pernicious, noisome, noxious, disastrous, ruinous. 2. impairing, marring, spoiling, blighting, wounding, vitiating,… …
47negative — adj 1. nullifying, voiding, disannulling, annulling, canceling, revocatory; quashing, invalidating, vitiating, vacating, disenacting; forbidding, prohibiting, proscribing, disapproving; denying, contradicting, gainsaying, traversing. 2. opposed,… …
48perversive — adj 1. perverting, corrupting, corruptive, deteriorating, degenerating, degenerative, corroding, corrosive; vitiating, debasing, degrading, lowering, reducing; defiling, demoralizing, seducing, subverting, leading astray, desecrating, debauching …
49ruination — n 1. demolition, wiping out, laying waste, gutting, devastation, desolation; destroying, bringing to ruin, laying in ruins; wrecking, knocking to pieces, dashing to pieces, smashing; dismantling, disassembly, taking apart. 2. razing, tearing down …
50unhealthy — adj 1. sick, sickly, unsound, in poor health; ill, unwell, ailing, Inf. poorly, indisposed, Inf. under the weather; afflicted, weak, feeble, frail, delicate, fragile, debilitated; infirm, drooping, withered, worn out, enervated, spent, played out …
