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Provided by the compucert vitiate \VISH-ee-ayt\, transitive verb:
- To make faulty or imperfect; to render defective; to impair; as, "exaggeration vitiates a style of writing."
- To corrupt morally; to debase.
- To render ineffective; as, "fraud vitiates a contract."
Vitiate comes from Latin vitiare, from vitium, fault. It is related to vice (a moral failing or fault), which comes from vitium via French.
snowpocalypse- snow + apocalypse = snowpocalypse. When weathermen predict large amounts of snowfall in a short period of time.
Paul: Naw, just a couple inches, the weather man is an idiot.
Trivia
What does the name of the element krypton mean in Greek?
- “Hidden”—from the Greek word kryptos. The element was given the name because of the difficulty its discoverers had in isolating it.
- National Weather Service: then known as the United States Weather Bureau, was founded; it used to alert fruit growers to the approach of stormy weather by telegraph (1870)
- Davis Cup: international tennis competition was played for the first time; its donor, Dwight F. Davis, won (1900)
- war time: clocks were turned forward one hour in the US to aid the war effort; this change to daylight-saving time was year-round and lasted till the end of WWII (1942)
- Satchel Paige: became the first Negro League player elected into Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame (1971)
- Carole King (68): singer/songwriter, "You've Got a Friend"; plus, musicians Gasparo Angiolini (1731-1803) and Joe Ely (63),
- Judith Light (61): Claire Meadeon Ugly Betty; also, actors Kathryn Grayson (88), Janet Suzman (71), Joe Pesci (67), Mia Farrow (65), Charles Shaughnessy (55), Julie Warner (45), Jason George (38), Charlie Day (34), A.J. Buckley (33), Zhang Ziyi (31) and David Gallagher (25)
- Alice Walker (66): Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple; other writers born on this date include Amy Lowell (1874-1925) and J. M. Coetzee (70)
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