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VITIATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vitiation mean?
• VITIATION (noun)
The noun VITIATION has 1 sense:
1. nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null
Familiarity information: VITIATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the vitiation of the contract
Hypernyms ("vitiation" is a kind of...):
nullification; override (the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something)
Derivation:
vitiate (take away the legal force of or render ineffective)
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