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词汇 vitiating
释义 vitiating
present participle ofvitiate
vitiate
verb[ T ]
 formaluk /ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/ us /ˈvɪʃ.i.eɪt/
to destroy or damage something: 毁坏;破坏;削弱
He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns.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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aggravate
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devaluation
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Destroying and demolishing

Examples of vitiating


vitiating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The only factor that may have a vitiating influence is the progressively larger female cohorts entering the child-bearing years.
Out of an abundance of caution, let us revisit the charge of vitiating legislative authority.
Presumably, vitiating a blame attribution through excuses will also avoid the negative affective sequelae of blame attributions and result in less self- or other-directed negative affect.
Machine learning experiments on grammar induction, particularly those involving unsupervised learning, can contribute important insights into the necessary conditions for language acquisition, at the least by vitiating poverty-of-stimulus arguments.
Hemmed in by opposition to his first attempts to alter the system,9 the amir tried to maintain the letter of the constitution while vitiating its spirit.
I ask that they be brought in at some stage without vitiating the principle which we apply for the country as a whole.
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It just happens that in the present case the one is vitiating the other.
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He spoke of the danger of vitiating comparisons with previous years.
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The advice of all the technicians on the subject is that the acreage both for wheat and coarse grains can be obtained without vitiating the rules of good husbandry.
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If you raise them above their biological level and plant them on the community, you run the risk of vitiating the race by the increase of their defects.
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It said constant "pressure for increase" was vitiating the business, and that agents were goaded to pile on policy after policy irrespective of the capacity of the public to pay.
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If the existence or effect of the vitiating factor is not recognised by the defendant, then he would not be dishonest.
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Additional rooms may be taken during the year without vitiating the qualification.
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He held that the same principle should apply even where the vitiating factor was something else: undue influence or duress, for example.
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In fact, there appears to be no control resulting in the emergence of touts as major players, vitiating the entire programme. 13.
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