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  • 51vitiate — UK [ˈvɪʃɪeɪt] / US [ˈvɪʃɪˌeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms vitiate : present tense I/you/we/they vitiate he/she/it vitiates present participle vitiating past tense vitiated past participle vitiated very formal to make something less effective or …

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  • 52vitiate — /ˈvɪʃieɪt / (say visheeayt) verb (t) (vitiated, vitiating) 1. to impair the quality of; make faulty; mar. 2. to contaminate; corrupt; spoil. 3. to make legally defective or invalid; invalidate. {Latin vitiātus, past participle, spoiled}… …

  • 53infectious — [adj] catching, spreading communicable, contagious, contaminating, corrupting, defiling, diseased, epidemic, infective, mephitic, miasmic, noxious, pestilent, pestilential, poisoning, polluting, toxic, transferable, transmittable, virulent,… …

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  • 54vitiate — [vish′ē āt΄] vt. vitiated, vitiating [< L vitiatus, pp. of vitiare, to vitiate < vitium,VICE1] 1. to make imperfect, faulty, or impure; spoil; corrupt 2. to weaken morally; debase; pervert 3. to make (a contract, or other legal instrument)… …

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  • 55vi|ti|a|tion — «VIHSH ee AY shuhn», noun. 1. the act of vitiating. 2. the fact or state of of being vitiated …

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  • 56LEVITICUS, BOOK OF — (Heb. וַיִּקְרָא; LXX Λευιτικόν leuitikon), more aptly described by its tannaitic name, Torat Kohanim, the Priests Manual, the third book of the Pentateuch. Leviticus is thematically an independent entity. exodus contains the story of the… …

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