The scandal threatened to vitiate the trust that the laity had long placed in their leaders.
Source: tatoeba (13576675)
Vitiate
//ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt//
Synonyms for "vitiate" (203 found)
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Closest matches (41)
Strong matches (61)
Verb(26 words)
Related words (101)
Verb(54 words)
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Translations
33 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- повреждам verb (to spoil)
- покварявам verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
- развалям verb (to spoil)
Dutch
1 entries- bederven verb (to spoil)
Finnish
2 entries- mitätöidä verb (to invalidate)
- pilata verb (to spoil)
Georgian
4 entries- გარყვნა verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
- გაუპატიურება verb (to violate, to rape)
- გაუქმება verb (to invalidate)
- გაფუჭება verb (to spoil)
German
2 entries- beschädigen verb (to spoil)
- verderben verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
Hungarian
4 entries- elront verb (to spoil)
- hatálytalanít verb (to invalidate)
- megerőszakol verb (to violate, to rape)
- megront verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- utarma verb (to spoil)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- بوزمق verb (to spoil)
- بوزمق verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
- بوزمق verb (to invalidate)
Portuguese
2 entries- viciar verb (to spoil)
- viciar verb (to debase or morally corrupt)
Russian
4 entries- изнаси́ловать verb (to violate, to rape)
- испо́ртить verb (to spoil)
- наси́ловать verb (to violate, to rape)
- по́ртить verb (to spoil)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The chemical outflow from the factory threatened to vitiate the purity of the river's water.
Source: tatoeba (13639233)
A constant outflow of skilled workers can vitiate a region's economic growth.
Source: tatoeba (13639234)
A single biased question can vitiate the results of an entire survey.
Source: tatoeba (13639249)
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