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| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : teynt |
| Phonetic Transcription : teɪnt |
Definition of taint
Origin :- 1570s, "to corrupt, contaminate," also "to touch, tinge, imbue slightly" (1590s), from Middle English teynten "to convict, prove guilty" (late 14c.), partly from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre "to touch upon, seize" (see attainder). Also from Anglo-French teinter "to color, dye" (early 15c.), from Old French teint (12c.), past participle of teindre "to dye, color," from Latin tingere (see tincture). Related: Tainted; tainting.
- noun contamination, corruption
- verb dirty, contaminate; ruin
- This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- I will not hear it from your lips, and with the taint of your wickedness upon it.
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.
- Extract from : « Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 » by Henry Fielding
- The air did not seem lovely to him, for he was positive that he detected the taint.
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Do you forget who I am, and the taint that is in my blood; the disgrace that stains my name?
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Was he to have the humiliation of seeing the taint revive in him?
- Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
- In loins of meat, the long pipe that runs by the bone should be taken out, as it is apt to taint; as also the kernels of beef.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- Then they strewed the grass on the sand, to purify it from taint of earth, and then they began.
- Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
- He laughed as he said it, but there was a taint of bitterness 53 in the laugh.
- Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Synonyms for taint
- adulterate
- besmirch
- black mark
- blacken
- blemish
- blight
- blot
- blur
- brand
- break down
- cast a slur
- cloud
- contagion
- cook
- corrupt
- crud up
- crumble
- cut
- damage
- debase
- decay
- decompose
- defect
- defile
- deprave
- discolor
- discredit
- disgrace
- dishonor
- disintegrate
- doctor
- fault
- flaw
- foul
- give a bad name
- harm
- hurt
- infect
- infection
- muddy
- poison
- pollute
- pollution
- putrefy
- rot
- shame
- smear
- soil
- spike
- spoil
- spot
- stain
- stigma
- stigmatize
- sully
- tar
- tarnish
- trash
- turn
- water
- water down
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