(verb) : vĭtĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, vitium
* To make faulty, to injure, spoil, mar, taint, corrupt, infect, vitiate (class., esp. in the trop. sense; syn.: corrumpo, noceo).
* Lit.
* In gen.: dira lues quondam Latias vitiaverat auras,Ov. M. 15, 626; cf.: amnem salibus amaris,id. ib. 15, 286: ossa,Cels. 8, 2: corpora,Ov. F. 6, 136: oculos,id. F. 1, 691: facies longis vitiabitur annis,id. Tr. 3, 7, 33: ferramentum in opere,Col. 11, 1, 20: ova,id. 8, 11, 5: vina,Hor. S. 2, 4, 54: boves aliqua offensa,Pall. 4, 12, 1.
* Trop.: comitiorum et contionum significationes sunt nonnumquam vitiatae atque corruptae,falsified,Cic. Sest. 54, 115 Halm N. cr.: dies, to make void the nomination of a day for the census, id. Att. 4, 9, 1; cf.: senatusconsulta arbitrio consulum supprimebantur vitiabanturque,Liv. 3, 55, 13: scripturas,Dig. 50, 17, 94: auspicia, Messala ap. Gell. 13, 15, 4: pectora limo malorum,Ov. P. 4, 2, 18; cf.: curis vitiatum corpus amaris,id. ib. 1, 10, 3.