attaint
attaint is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To attain; to get act; to hit. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To attain; to get act; to hit.
- transitive verb. To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
- transitive verb. To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
- transitive verb. To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
- transitive verb. To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
- transitive verb. To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
- past participle. Attainted; corrupted.
- verb. A touch or hit.
- verb. A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
- verb. A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
- verb. A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
- verb. An infecting influence.
- verb. condemn by attainder
"the man was attainted"
- verb. bring shame or dishonor upon
"he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime"
Synonyms
disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame
Common word forms
attaints, attainted, attainting, attaintment
Words from these letters
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