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单词 vitiate
释义
vitiate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/us
/ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/
todestroyordamagesomething:
毁坏；破坏；削弱
He said that Americanmilitarypowershould never again be vitiated bypoliticalconcerns.他说美国的军事力量绝不能再次因为政治上的考虑而有所削弱。
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Deteriorating and making worse
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Destroying and demolishing
(Definition ofvitiatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvitiate

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This situation, however, did notvitiatethe legitimacy and respect enjoyed by medicine.
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But this slippage did notvitiatethe main point that he wished to make about the imperial idea.
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Note that this vitiates the functional account of a split system.
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This was due to the inherent structure of the enterprise missionaries built up themselves, which vitiated its own religiosity.
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Out of an abundance of caution, let us revisit the charge of vitiating legislative authority.
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The claimant's mistake vitiates the transfer, which means that the transfer was not the autonomous act of the claimant.
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Yet these strengths are often vitiated by the book's combative tone.
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Practices like thesevitiatethe legitimating force of any loyalty or support that such a regime manages to secure.
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This fault only vitiates the book further as a political memoir.
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That quality is vitiated once domestic functions take on the cast of administrative machinery.
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Even if some goods experience deflation, inflation in other goods may offset that andvitiatethe aggregate deflation guarantee.
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On the contrary, by its repressive actions, it helped expand that base and, in turn, vitiated its own efforts.
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Such a circumstance wouldvitiatehis predictions for aphasic production.
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And, its apparent role in complex planning is at least greatly vitiated.
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The spread of automobility and electronic communications networks have further vitiated the core-periphery relationship between work places and domestic places.
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