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v. To affect with or as if with a disease.

v. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.

v. To corrupt morally.

v. To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.

verb-intransitive. To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.

n. A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See Synonyms at stain.

n. An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.

n. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food

n. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish

n. tincture; hue; colour

n. infection; corruption; deprivation

v. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

v. To spoil (food) by contamination.

n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

n. 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.

n. The perineum.

n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

n. 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.

verb-intransitive. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

v. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

v. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

v. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison.

v. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

verb-intransitive. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

verb-intransitive. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

n. Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

n. Infection; corruption; deprivation.

n. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

v. Aphetic form of attaint.

n. Color; hue; dye; tinge.

n. A stain; a spot; a blemish; a touch of discredit or dishonor.

n. An infecting tinge; a trace; a touch.

n. A corrupting or contaminating influence, physical or moral; a cause or condition of depravation or decay; an infection.

n. A certain spider of small size and red color, reputed to be poisonous: perhaps a species of Latrodectus, but probably only a harvest-mite, and not poisonous.

To tinge; tincture; hence, to imbue; touch; affect.

To imbue with something of a deleterious or offensive nature; infect or impregnate with a noxious substance or principle; affect with insalubrity, contagion, disease, or the like.

To make noisome or poisonous in constitution; corrupt the elements of; render putrid, deleterious, or unfit for use as food or drink.

To corrupt morally; imbue with perverse or objectionable ideas; exert a vitiating influence over; pervert; contaminate.

To give a corrupted character or appearance to; affect injuriously; stain; sully; tarnish.

To disgrace; fix contumely upon.

To treat with a tincture; embrocate; mollify.

= Syn. 2-5. Contaminate, Defile, Taint, Pollute, Corrupt, Vitiate. Whether these words are regarded as meaning the injuring of purity or the spoiling of value, they are in the order of strength, except that each is used in different degrees of strength, and that vitiate is one of the weaker words and taint a strong word for rendering impure. Corrupt means the absolute destruction of purity. They all suggest an influence from without coming upon or into that whose purity or value is injured.

To be tinged or tinctured; become imbued or touched.

To become tainted or rancid; be affected with incipient putrefaction.

Tainted; touched; imbued.

To touch or hit in tilting; reach with a thrust, as of a lance or other weapon.

To thrust, as a lance or other weapon, especially in tilting.

To make an effort or essay, as a juster; tilt, as in the just; make a thrust.

n. A thrust, as of a lance in tilting; especially, a preliminary movement or trial with a weapon, as in the tilt, or, by extension, in battle.

To attaint.

n. the state of being contaminated

v. contaminate with a disease or microorganism

v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

"But the taint is also spreading to the city itself, which is being portrayed in an unflattering and unsettling way."

tainted    tainting    taints   

deflower    vitiate    spoil    mar    impair   

contaminate    contamination    imperfection   

attaint   

tainted    tainting   

infect    pollute    vitiate    poison    defile    contaminate    disease    corrupt    sully    tarnish   

Paint    Saint    acquaint    complaint    constraint    faint    feint    paint    quaint    repaint   

stench    imputation    stain    odour    tinge    odor    whiff    reproach    trace    suspicion