Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- 2noun
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.
- 3intransitive verb
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- 4transitive verb
To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- 5transitive verb
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
- 8intransitive verb
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- 9intransitive verb
To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
- 10noun
Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- 11noun
Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- 12noun
A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
- 13noun
the state of being contaminated
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- 14verb
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
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- 15verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
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