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.
例文
1. But this does not vitiate his scholarship.
しかし、これは彼の奨学金を脅かすことはありません。
2.This may vitiate a literal translation.
これは直訳の価値を損なう。
3.No such Variation shall vitiate or invalidate this Contract.