Definitions for taint

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Spelling: [teynt]

IPA: /teɪnt/

Taint is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in taint (aintt).

Definitions for taint

noun

1. a trace of something bad, offensive, or harmful.
2. a trace of infection, contamination, or the like.
3. a trace of dishonor or discredit.
4. Obsolete. color; tint.
5. the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.

verb (used with object)

1. to modify by or as if by a trace of something offensive or deleterious.
2. to infect, contaminate, corrupt, or spoil.
3. to sully or tarnish (a person's name, reputation, etc.).
4. Obsolete. to color or tint.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tainted; spoil.

Origin of taint

1325-75; conflation of Middle English taynt, aphetic variant of attaint struck, attainted, past participle of attainten to attaint; late Middle English taynt hue,

Examples for taint

This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me.

I will not hear it from your lips, and with the taint of your wickedness upon it.

No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.

Nixon carried the taint of a perpetual candidate who had lost high-profile races.

His temper was of the saturnine complexion, and without the least taint of moroseness.

In losing, however, he will taint his possible rivals—including Rand Paul—as pitiful members of the "surrender caucus."

Once successfully in, I can see my Hash 160 and taint Analysis, among other things.

“Some people worry about the taint of association,” Bradley said.

Random spot checks, so that getting checked carries no taint.

The air did not seem lovely to him, for he was positive that he detected the taint.