Definition of taint

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Taint (v. t.) 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..

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Hydra-tainted :: Hydra-tainted (a.) Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
Defile :: Defile (v. t.) To soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint..
Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
Dubiety :: Dubiety (n.) Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.
Taintworm :: Taintworm (n.) A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
Pollute :: Pollute (v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement..
Smutty :: Smutty (superl.) Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn..
Certainty :: Certainty (n.) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
Unconfidence :: Unconfidence (n.) Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
Security :: Security (n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty..
Taint :: Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
Margin :: Margin (n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty..
Positiveness :: Positiveness (n.) The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a..
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
Taint :: Taint (v. t.) To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner..
Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation..
Flutist :: Flutist (n.) To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty.
Mildew :: Mildew (v. t.) To taint with mildew.
Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..
Uncertainty :: Uncertainty (n.) The quality or state of being uncertain.
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