What is another word for Vitiating?

Pronunciation: [vˈɪʃɪˌe͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

The word "vitiating" means to spoil or ruin something by making it less effective or impaired. There are several synonyms for this word that can be used depending on the context or situation. Some of the common synonyms include corrupting, contaminating, tainting, polluting, degrading, undermining, contaminating, impairing and sabotaging. These words are often used to describe the negative impact of something on its quality or effectiveness. For instance, pollution can lead to vitiating the environment by contaminating the air, water or soil. Similarly, corrupting practices can vitiating the progress made by any organization or society.

What are the hypernyms for Vitiating?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Vitiating

To pacify his wife, who was very sorry for him, I gave him some "Cockle's Pills" and the trapper's remedy of "a pint of hot water with a pinch of cayenne pepper," and left him moaning and bundled up under a pile of futons, in a nearly hermetically sealed room, with a hibachi of charcoal Vitiating the air.
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Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
But we are learning to-day that metre is not only an unnecessary element in poetry, but often an artificial, hampering encumbrance, frequently Vitiating the poetical quality of a poem.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
If the individual enjoyment is not a social enjoyment, it is disorderly and Vitiating.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody

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