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

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

In the case of McNally, who presented as a teenage boy throughout a relationship with a teenage girl, the Court of Appeal determined that "deception as to gender can vitiate consent".

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2019

These “young men and mayds” were convicted by the magistrate of “meeting at unseasonable times, and of night walking, and companying together contrary to civility and good nurture, tending to vitiate one another.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 4, 2018

If grief, anger, or excessive joy are able to vitiate secretions, and cause sickness and death, a happy frame of mind, intellectual exertion and moral excellence tend to the perfect health of these secretions.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson