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Synonyms of vitiate

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Another word for vitiate is corrupt. Other synonyms of vitiate are dirty, degrade, ruin, devalue and depreciate.

Synonyms and similar words for vitiate

verbTo spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

  • mess up
  • ruinTo upset or overturn the plans or progress of, or to have a disastrous effect on something.
  • degradeTo lower in value or social position.
  • devalueTo lower or remove the value of something.
  • blightTo impede the development or growth of (an aspect of life); to damage, to ruin, to spoil.
  • bumble
  • botchTo perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
  • bugger up vulgar
  • bungleTo incompetently perform (a task); to ruin (something) through incompetent action; to botch up, to bumble.
  • contaminateTo soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
  • corruptTo make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
  • crab slang
  • depraveTo make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
  • disrupt
  • disturb
  • foilTo blunt; to dull; to spoil.
  • fuck up vulgar
  • jack up vulgar
  • marTo spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
  • mishandle
  • mommick US, dialectalTo mess up; to bungle or ruin by bungling.
  • polluteTo make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
  • put a crimp in
  • screw up vulgar
  • soilTo make invalid, to ruin.
  • sour
  • spoil
  • stain
  • undo literary
  • upset
  • turn upside down
  • upset the applecartTo disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.
  • abaseTo lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase.
  • debase
  • debauchTo morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
  • depreciateTo lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of.
  • devaluateTo devalue, reduce in value.
  • dirtyTo debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
  • ball up dated, slangTo ruin or botch.
  • queer dated, slang
  • avile obsoleteTo abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
  • elevate obsoleteTo attempt to make (something) seem less important, remarkable, etc.

verbTo debase or morally corrupt.

  • immoralizeTo corrupt; to make immoral.
  • lead astrayTo influence (someone) to have bad habits or to behave improperly or illegally.
  • warpTo deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
  • adulterateTo corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
  • fileTo corrupt.
  • pervert
  • seduceTo beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
  • sophisticate figurativelyTo alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention...
  • subornTo induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
  • subvertTo pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • unmoralizeTo make immoral or corrupt.
  • demoralize datedTo erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.
  • detort datedTo pervert.
  • preposterate obsoleteTo pervert or disgrace.
  • tamper datedTo meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.

verbTo violate, to rape.

  • abuseTo violate; defile; to rape; (reflexive) to masturbate.
  • outrageTo sexually violate; to rape.
  • violeTo violate, especially to rape.
  • dishonourTo violate or rape.
  • forceTo violate (a woman); to rape.
  • misuseTo rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
  • rapeTo force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
  • ravage slangTo rape.
  • r-word euphemisticTo rape.
  • scotch slangTo rape.
  • turn out slangTo rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
  • violateTo rape.
  • grape euphemistic
  • constuprate obsoleteTo rape, violate.
  • defile obsoleteTo deprive (someone) of their sexual chastity or purity, often not consensually; to deflower, to rape.
  • defoul obsoleteTo defile the chastity of; to debauch, to rape.
  • oppress obsoleteTo sexually violate; to rape.
  • ravish datedTo rape.

verbTo make something ineffective, to invalidate.

Meaning of vitiate

  1. verb To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
  2. verb To debase or morally corrupt.
  3. verb To violate, to rape.

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Questions about synonyms of vitiate

What is another word for vitiate?
Vitiate has 95 synonyms on Word.ws, such as corrupt, dirty, degrade, ruin, devalue, depreciate, soil and bungle.
What does vitiate mean?
Vitiate means to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.

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