vitiate

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Giving that up, Professor Bale said, would vitiate the ideological rationale of her government and potentially turn her into a lame-duck leader until the next election, which she will have to call by early 2025.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

She accused Mr Zubair of "peddling a fake-narrative to vitiate the atmosphere, cause communal disharmony & cause communal & targeted hatred against me & my family".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2022

The rule recognized that new technologies cannot be employed to vitiate the right to be secure promised by the Fourth Amendment.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2021

He appointed an Attorney General who had successfully fought to vitiate federal prohibitions on the execution of the mentally ill.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 30, 2017

Unhappily it came to an end through a-33- prosecution under the Truck Act, that blot upon the Statute Book, designed, it would appear, even deliberately to vitiate man's benevolent control of his fellow man.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)