vitiation, n. 1. impairment, reduction, devaluation, deterioration, depreciation, lowering, descent, fall, detriment; adulteration, pollution, contamination, infection, dilution, poisoning.
2. debasement, abasement, degradation, degeneration, decadence; corruption, perversion, vulgarization, defilement; depravation, demoralization, desecration, debauchment.
3. invalidation, voidance, cancellation, annulment, nullification; withdrawal, repeal, retraction, revocation, abolition, abrogation, suppression; erasure, deletion, effacement, undoing, overthrow, destruction, obliteration.
vitreous, adv. glassy, glasshke, hyaline, vitric, vitri-form; clear, crystal clear, crystal, crystalline, transparent, transpicuous, translucent, lucid, pellucid, limpid; mirrorlike, reflective, refelecting, gleaming, shiny, shining, glossy, lustrous; smooth, slick, icelike, icy; hard, brittle, breakable, frangible, fragile.
vitriolic, adj. 1. caustic, acrimonious, mordant, mordacious, bitter, acrid, acidulous, acid, pungent; trenchant, cutting, incisive, slashing, scathing; keen, pointed, sharp, sharp-tongued; penetrating, piercing, stinging, pricking, nipping, biting; astringent, severe, acerb, acerbic, stern, harsh, austere, stringent; spiteful, virulent, malicious, maleficent, venomous, vicious, malevolent,malignant; invidious, hateful.
2. sarcastic, sardonic, scornful, mocking, ridiculing, derisive, derisory, Rabelaisian; satirical, ironic, ironical, double-edged, edged, cynical; contemptuous, contumelious, disparaging, sneering, disdainful, supercilious, haughty, arrogant; taunting, teasing, chaffing, gibing, jeering, scoffing; critical, captious, censorious, carping, faultfinding, hypercritical.
vituperate, v. 1. censure, find fault with, slate, dispraise, reprove, reproach, reprobate, cry down, run down, Inf. dress down, disapprove, frown upon; inculpate, blame, incriminate, criminate, take to task, call to account; condemn, denounce, rate, objurgate, reprehend, imprecate, fulminate, revile, execrate, rail, damn, curse, animadvert, anathematize, comminate, delate, Obs. exprobrate; belittle, disparage, detract, deprecate, depreciate, devaluate, derogate, deflate, decry; humiliate, humble, mortify.
2. berate, upbraid, reprimand, castigate, chasten, chastise, scold, chide, rebuke; contemn, ridicule, scorn, spurn, despise, sneer at.
3. defame, vilify, denigrate, vilipend, scandalize, impugn, blackguard, malign, gibbet, pull to pieces, SI. do a hatchet job on, give a bad name, speak ill of, speak evil of; slander, libel, calumniate, traduce, falsify, accuse falsely, misrepresent, belie, impute, asperse, insinuate; injure, abuse, insult, backbite, SI. badmouth, engage in personalities.
vituperation, n. 1. castigation, chastisement, scolding, chiding, upbraiding, Inf. dressing down, reprimand, admonition, lecture, expostulation, Chiefly Brit. Inf. jobation, slap in the face, Inf. rap on the knuckles; philippic, diatribe, tirade; defamation, denigration, vilification, scandal; slander, libel, calumny, calumniation, misrepresentation, false report, falsehood, lie, untruth, malicious falsehood or untruth, aspersion, imputation, insinuation, innuendo, Inf. brickbat; abuse, injury, insult, backbiting, mudsling-ing, SI. badmouthing.
2. denunciation, condemnation, invective, revile-ment, reproach, contumely, malediction, railing, curse, imprecation, fulmination, rebuke, remonstra-tion, delation, Archaic, exprobration, objurgation, reprehension, reproof, reprobatrion, disapproval, disapprobation; censure, blame, inculpation, incrimination, crimination, implication, Obs., Rare, accrimi-nation, impeachment, indictment.