词为我用 - vitiate

词汇释义

vitiate  TEM8  GRE

UK  /ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/ US  /ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/

verb,  to make something less effective or spoil it. 削弱（某物）的效能，破坏，损害

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外刊例句

1. That vitiated the government’s goal of curbing social contacts in the face of a new variant of the coronavirus that British officials said spreads far faster than the original strain.(New York Times)

2. He also argued that her “excellent case for Mank is in the end more than somewhat vitiated by the publication of the script itself,” describing it as smart but superficial.(Washington Post)

3. “Actions like this both undermine our reputation as a democracy & vitiate our soft power.”(New York Times)

4. “What coastal staff is proposing is entirely unreasonable, it’s irrational. They’re overreaching and trying to vitiate the entire permit history of the park,” said Mark Massara, the lawyer representing the neighborhood district.(Los Angeles TimesJ)

5. By leaving dormant the powers inherent in their institution, they vitiate the Constitution’s vital principle: the separation of powers.(Washington Post)

6. Can government bureaucrats vitiate private property rights without a jury trial and fair compensation?(Wall Street Journal)

7. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel in 2014 sought to establish a limiting principle, which last month was vitiated in unprecedented fashion by another panel on the same court.(Wall Street Journal)

8. As part of it, the firm admitted that it vitiated its stated standards for evaluating securities in an area where those standards put in question its ability to win business.(TheEconomist)

9. Whereas the district court viewed this as an independent, primary purpose that vitiated the privilege, the D.C.(Forbes)

10. "By reaching into the claims process and explicitly diminishing the amount possible to be realized by claimants, the withholding vitiates a significant benefit of avoiding litigation," they wrote.(Reuters)

11. Soon, though — as France industrialized further, and as photography vitiated whole traditions of portrait painting — Corot’s women started to modernize.(New York Times)

12. These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”(The New Yorker)

词汇搭配

vitiate standard, principle, power, determination, investment

词汇家族

vitiates, vitiated, vitiating

词汇来源

"to render vicious, faulty, or imperfect; injure the quality or substance of," 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" .

近义词

reduce, mar, spoil, harm, impair, blemish, cripple, damage, deface, hurt, devalue, undermine, weaken, wreck, destroy, blight

反义词

improve, increase, grow, enhance, raise,enhance, strengthen, renovate, repair, ameliorate, amend, assist, facilitate

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