The word "vitiate" is a valid and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe something that has been spoiled or made worse due to some kind of corruption or negative influence. For example, "The trust between the partners was vitiated by their constant bickering."
The government of the UK must cease to vitiate the civil liberties of its people, it must cease to use its territory and its transport facilities as an auxiliary to American military misbehaviour.
The UK government must cease to vitiate the civil liberties of its people.
Bad policies, such as job-destroying regulations, could vitiate the potential gains from a single currency, just as they have limited the benefits from the single market.
And second, Germany in particular would be loth to sanction Russian help in the form of a loan, since this would add to Cyprus's debt burden and vitiate attempts to put it on a sustainable footing.If Cyprus fails to get sufficient support from Russia (which, after all, turned down pleas for further help last year), then two other possibilities remain.
The appointment, and indeed his highlighting of the issue, may be a typical instance of Cameron guile, but that does not vitiate its value.
The awareness that "it's only a movie" doesn't vitiate its power over a viewer's feelings.
As of now, about the only thing it has going for it is money — an advantage that Obama's war chest will vitiate in the general election.
And we vitiate that strength when we engage in repression.
The series books would "debauch and vitiate" a child's imagination.
Most gravely, Aitken's attempt to bridge gaps between public spectacle and private experience manages to vitiate both.
They eschew the hand-me-down picturesque conventions that vitiate most "self-taught" painting.
