Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To attain; to get act; to hit.
- 2transitive verb
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
- 5transitive verb
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
- 6transitive verb
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
- 7past participle
Attainted; corrupted.
- 8verb
A touch or hit.
- 9verb
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
- 10verb
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.
- 11verb
A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
- 12verb
An infecting influence.
- 13verb
condemn by attainder
"the man was attainted"
- 14verb
bring shame or dishonor upon
"he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime"
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