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Vitiation

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Noun

1. vitiation

nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null

Example Sentences:
'the vitiation of the contract'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vitiation

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to make faulty or imperfect
2. 
to debase, pervert, or corrupt
3. 
to destroy the force or legal effect of (a deed, etc)
to vitiate a contract

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Vitiation

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈvitiˌated or ˈvitiˌating
1. 
to make imperfect, faulty, or impure; spoil; corrupt
2. 
to weaken morally; debase; pervert
3. 
to make (a contract, or other legal instrument) ineffective; invalidate

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vitiation

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tr.v. vi·ti·at·ed, vi·ti·at·ing, vi·ti·ates
1. To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil: "His famous compilation of norms was vitiated by a major sampling error" (Frederick Crews).
2. To corrupt morally; debase: "My anxieties ... still are great lest the numerous ... snares of vice should vitiate your early habits of virtue" (Abigail Adams). See Synonyms at corrupt.
3. To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.

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