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vitiate

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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.

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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debauch the young people with wine and women Source: Internet

Socrates was accused of corrupting young men Source: Internet

Do school counselors subvert young children? Source: Internet

corrupt the morals Source: Internet

nothing marred her beauty Source: Internet

invalidate a contract Source: Internet

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