TAINT
\tˈe͡ɪnt], \tˈeɪnt], \t_ˈeɪ_n_t]\
Definitions of TAINT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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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.
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To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
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To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
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To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
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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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Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
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To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
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Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
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Infection; corruption; deprivation.
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A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
By Oddity Software
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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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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.
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To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
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To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
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To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
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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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Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
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To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
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Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
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Infection; corruption; deprivation.
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A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
By Noah Webster.
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Corruption; infection; a moral spot or stain; disgrace.
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To fill with something unpleasant or poisonous, as a disease; to infect or corrupt.
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To become spoiled, as meat.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To tinge, moisten, or impregnate with anything noxious: to infect: to stain.
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To be affected with something corrupting.
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A stain or tincture: infection or corruption: a spot: a moral blemish.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Tincture; stain; infection; corruption; depravation; a stain; a blemish on reputation; a kind of spider.
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To imbue or impregnate with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; to infect; to poison; to corrupt, as by incipient putrefaction; to stain; to tarnish.
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To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A stain; a tincture; a blemish; infection.
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To defile; to contaminate; to impregnate with anything corrupt or foul; to sully; to be infected or corrupted.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Tincture ; stain ;-infection ; corruption :-a blemish on reputation.
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