1. acts of making something faulty, defective, or invalid; corruptions or impairments
Usage: formal; legal

Examples

• The contract’s vitiations made it legally unenforceable.
• Several vitiations in the data compromised the study’s reliability.
• The lawyer argued that these vitiations invalidated the entire agreement.
• Quality control identified multiple vitiations in the manufacturing process.
• The vitiations of the original document required extensive corrections.