taint
taint is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 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
- noun. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- noun. 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.
- intransitive verb. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- transitive verb. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- transitive verb. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- intransitive verb. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- intransitive verb. To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
- noun. Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- noun. Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- noun. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
- noun. the state of being contaminated
- verb. contaminate with a disease or microorganism
- verb. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
Synonyms
contamination, infect, cloud, corrupt, defile, sully
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in taint:
Common word forms
taints, tainted, tainting, taintable, taintless, taintment
Words from these letters
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