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Definition of 'Taint'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) taint
a trace of something bad or offensive.

2.  taint
a trace of infection or contamination.

3. (v.t.) taint
to modify by a trace of something bad or offensive.

4.  taint
to infect or contaminate.

5.  taint
to sully or tarnish (a person's name, reputation, etc.).

6. (v.i.) taint
to become tainted; spoil.

Etymology: (1325–75; conflation of ME taynt (aph. var. of attaint, ptp. of attaint ) with late ME taynt hue, tint (< AF teint < L tinctus))

Definition of 'Taint'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) contamination, taint
the state of being contaminated

2. (verb) defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"

3. (verb) infect, taint
contaminate with a disease or microorganism

Definition of 'Taint'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Taint
a thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect

2. (noun) Taint
an injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner

3. (noun) Taint
tincture; hue; color; tinge

4. (noun) Taint
infection; corruption; deprivation

5. (noun) Taint
a blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace

6. (verb) Taint
to thrust ineffectually with a lance

7. (verb) Taint
to injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner

8. (verb) Taint
to hit or touch lightly, in tilting

9. (verb) Taint
to imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air

10. (verb) Taint
fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish

11. (verb) Taint
to be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting

12. (verb) Taint
to be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather

Translation of 'Taint'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to spoil (something) by touching it or bringing it into contact with something bad or rotten The meat has been tainted.
Afrikaans: bederf	Arabic: يُلَطِّخ، يُلَوِّث، يُفْس	Bulgarian: опетнявам
Brazilian: contaminar	Czech: zkazit	German: verderben
Danish: inficere	Greek: μολύνω	Spanish: echar a perder; contamina
Estonian: riknema ajama,ära rikkuma	Farsi: فاسد شدن؛ صدمه دیدن	Finnish: pilata
French: gâter, corrompre	Hebrew: לְהִתקַלקֵל	Hindi: दूषित करना
Croatian: (po)kvariti, uprljati	Hungarian: megfertőz	Indonesian: mencemari
Icelandic: spilla(st), menga(st)	Italian: guastare, contaminare	Japanese: よごす
Korean: 감염, 오염 시키다	Lithuanian: sugadinti	Latvian: sabojāt
Malay: menjadi busuk	Dutch: bederven	Norwegian: (be)smitte, infisere, for
Polish: skazić	Portuguese: contaminar	Romanian: a se strica, a se altera
Russian: портить(ся)	Slovak: skaziť (sa)	Slovenian: okužiti
Serbian: pokvariti	Swedish: göra skämd	Thai: ทำให้เสีย
Turkish: bozmak, kokutmak	Taiwanese: (使)腐壞, 感染	Ukrainian: псувати
Urdu: خراب کرنا، آلودہ کرنا	Vietnamese: làm hỏng	Chinese: （使）腐坏，感染
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