vitiation

n. 污染, 损害, 败坏, 造成无效 [法] 败坏, 污损, 污染

词形变化

vitiations 复数 vitiations

别名

viciation

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something.

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    1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, p. 39. […] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston […] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.

  2. 2.

    Moral corruption.

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  3. 3.

    An abolition or abrogation.

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词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

override nullification

词源

From Latin vitiare (“to spoil, damage”).

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