Definition of taint

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Taint (v. i.) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

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Security :: Security (n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty..
Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes..
Contamination :: Contamination (n.) The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates..
Inevitableness :: Inevitableness (n.) The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen.
Sinful :: Sinful (a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts..
Spot :: Spot (v. t.) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse..
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious..
Taint :: Taint (n.) Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
Andabatism :: Andabatism (n.) Doubt; uncertainty.
Obscurity :: Obscurity (n.) The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.
Doubt :: Doubt (v. i.) Uncertainty of condition.
Quandary :: Quandary (v. t.) To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty..
Season :: Season (v. t.) To imbue; to tinge or taint.
Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. i.) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
Lepered :: Lepered (a.) Affected or tainted with leprosy.
Taint :: 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..
Hydra-tainted :: Hydra-tainted (a.) Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly.
Quitch :: Quitch (n.) Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment..
Flyblow :: Flyblow (v. t.) To deposit eggs upon, as a flesh fly does on meat; to cause to be maggoty; hence, to taint or contaminate, as if with flyblows..
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