Taint
Aphetic form of Attaint.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
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.
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
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Taint Translations
taint in French is entachez, entachent, entachons
taint in German is verderben
taint in Latin is inficio infeci infectum
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