Vital, a.

    1. Essential, indispensable.
    2. Necessary to life, life-supporting.
    3. Living, alive, having life, animate.
    4. Very necessary, highly important, essential, paramount.

Vitality, n. Life, animation, vital power.

Vitalize, v. a. Vivify, animate, quicken, make alive, give life to, furnish with vital principle.

Vitals, n. pl.

    1. Seat of life, vital organs.
    2. Parts essential to life.

Vitiate, v. a.

    1. Impair, spoil, deteriorate, debase, deprave, corrupt, pollute, adulterate, injure, contaminate, infect, defile, poison, render defective, make vicious.
    2. Make void, destroy, cause to fail of effect.

Vitiation, n. Deterioration, degeneration, debasement, degradation, degeneracy, depravation, impairment, injury, corruption, perversion, pollution, prostitution, invalidation.

Vitreous, a. Glassy.

Vitrescible, a. Vitrifiable.

Vitriform, a. Hyaloid, transparent, like glass.

Vitriolated soda. Sulphate of soda, Glauber’s salt.

Vitriolated tartar. Sulphate of potash.

Vitriolic acid. Sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol.

Vituperate, v. a. (Rare.) Find fault with, scold, censure, overwhelm with abuse, abuse, vilify, revile, reproach, berate, rate, upbraid, rail at, objurgate.

Vituperation, n. Abuse, blame, reproach, reviling, upbraiding, railing, objurgation, invective, scolding, severe censure.


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