As some sneaky five year olds know, crossing one’s fingers while making a promise is an effective way to vitiate, or destroy the validity of, an agreement.
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil;
Verb
take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate as a contract"
Verb
make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
Verb
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"
v. t.
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render
defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to
contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing;
sewer gas vitiates the air.
v. t.
To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part;
to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an
instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on
a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.
Vitiate
A will vitiated and growth out of love with the truth disposes the understanding to error and delusion.
Without care it may be used to vitiate our minds.
This undistinguishing complaisance will vitiate the taste of readers.2.
To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil;
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