1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
雙語例句
1. But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
但這不會威脅到他的獎學金。
來自柯林斯例句
2. This may vitiate a literal translation.
這就會損害直譯的價值。
來自辭典例句
3. No such Variation shall vitiate or invalidate this Contract.