Yes! Your word expedition starts here.

vitiate

to render imperfect or defective; to invalidate or annul;
to contaminate, corrupt, or debase; to undermine or dilute

Sightings:

Some definitions: Words in your email -- Calvinists et al

Regular folks don't talk like this

We'll see who's literate and who ain't

Aged apothegms in neoteric vestments:
Exercises for creative thinking -- Netscape version -- Forms version -- Plain HTML version

Free Worms falling from the sky (explore this site to find more CIA cold-war escapades)

Abnormal organisms among us

And what do you believe ?

Secret teachings illustrated

Precarious balance of goodness

A zephyr of change in Africa

Piecing together a Euclidean geometry classic

Old highway relic becomes a laboratory

Running out of good air

Politics, ego, and other spoilers of Pakistani cricket

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