Difference between Vitiate and Spoil

What is the difference between Vitiate and Spoil?

Vitiate as a verb is to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something while Spoil as a verb is to strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.

Vitiate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something to debase or morally corrupt to violate, to rape to make something ineffective, to invalidate

Spoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions, armour etc.; to despoil.To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

Example sentence: Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

We hope you now know whether to use Vitiate or Spoil in your sentence.

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