What are some opposite words for vitiate?

Antonyms for vitiate
ˈvɪʃ iˌeɪtvi·ti·ate

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  1. vitiate

    The hand may be defiled by a touch of pitch; swine that have been wallowing in the mud are befouled. Contaminate and infect refer to something evil that deeply pervades and permeates, as the human body or mind. Pollute is used chiefly of liquids; as, water polluted with sewage. Tainted meat is repulsive; infected meat contains germs of disease. A soiled garment may be cleansed by washing; a spoiled garment is beyond cleansing or repair. Bright metal is tarnished by exposure; a fair sheet is sullied by a dirty hand. In figurative use, defile may be used merely in the ceremonial sense; "they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled," John xviii, 28; contaminate refers to deep spiritual injury. Pollute has also a reference to sacrilege; as, to pollute a sanctuary, an altar, or an ordinance. The innocent are often contaminated by association with the wicked; the vicious are more and more corrupted by their own excesses. We speak of a vitiated taste or style; fraud vitiates a title or a contract.

    Antonyms:
    clean, cleanse, disinfect, hallow, purify, sanctify, wash

    Synonyms:
    befoul, contaminate, corrupt, defile, infect, pollute, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish

    Preposition:
    The temple was defiled with blood; defiled by sacrilegious deeds.

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  1. vitiate

    Antonyms:
    corroborate, confirm, substantiate, justify, vindicate, sanction

    Synonyms:
    impair, corrupt, spoil, injure, invalidate, deteriorate, taint

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  1. corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirectverb

    corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

    "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

    Synonyms:
    subvert, bring down, mislead, overthrow, alloy, misguide, twist, impair, misaddress, abuse, deflower, demoralise, cloud, misdirect, weaken, get down, debase, counteract, demoralize, sully, convolute, profane, deject, lead astray, defile, desecrate, sophisticate, sabotage, load, countermine, mar, taint, overturn, stretch, invalidate, deprave, adulterate, dilute, twist around, undermine, buy, violate, grease one's palms, outrage, cast down, void, dispirit, depress, bribe, misuse, pervert, dismay, debauch, spoil, corrupt

  2. mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiateverb

    make imperfect

    "nothing marred her beauty"

    Synonyms:
    pamper, frustrate, debase, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, deflower, demoralise, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pervert, demoralize, fumble, flub, rape, thwart, ruin, ball up, subvert, featherbed, bollocks up, plunder, bollocks, baffle, mess up, despoil, invalidate, louse up, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, mutilate, void, deprave, cocker, misdirect, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, coddle, bollix up, debauch, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bodge

  3. invalidate, void, vitiateverb

    take away the legal force of or render ineffective

    "invalidate a contract"

    Synonyms:
    impair, debase, pervert, spoil, avoid, deprave, debauch, empty, annul, subvert, evacuate, profane, deflower, invalidate, cancel, misdirect, demoralise, mar, nullify, quash, corrupt, demoralize, void

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  1. vitiateverb

    Synonyms:
    debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil

How to use vitiate in a sentence?

  1. California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence":

    #3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.

  2. W. M. L. Jay:

    Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1809clean
#3358confirm
#5204wash
#9531justify
#19712sanction
#23960cleanse
#36357purify
#39584substantiate
#65827disinfect
#65919corroborate
#70462sanctify
#80199vindicate
#82104hallow
#121624vitiate

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