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tainted

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taint  (tnt)
v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints
v.tr.
1. To affect with or as if with a disease.
2. To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
3. To corrupt morally.
4. To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.
v.intr.
To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.
n.
1. A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See Synonyms at stain.
2. An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.

[Partly from obsolete taynt, to color, dye (from Anglo-Norman teint, from Latin tingere), and partly from Middle English tainten, to convict (short for atteinten, from Old French ataint; see attain).]

taintless adj.
taintless·ly adv.
taintless·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.tainted - touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
stale - lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale"
Translations

tainted [ˈteɪntɪd] adj [water, air] → contaminado;
(fig) → manchado
tainted [ˈteɪntɪd] adj [food] → gâté(e); [water, air] → infecté(e) (fig); souillé(e)
tainted [ˈteɪntɪd] taint adj [food, water, air] → verdorben (fig) [profits, reputation etc];
tainted with → behaftet mit
tainted [ˈteɪntɪd] adj [food] → guasto/a; [water, air] → infetto/a;
(fig) → corrotto/a


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And mine own hatred have I even hated, because it tainted thee!
On the twelfth day my throat was so painful that, taking the chance of alarming the Martians, I attacked the creaking rain-water pump that stood by the sink, and got a couple of glassfuls of blackened and tainted rain water.
With such a smile then, and with a voice sweet as the evening breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month of November, Mrs Bridget gently reproved the curiosity of Mrs Deborah; a vice with which it seems the latter was too much tainted, and which the former inveighed against with great bitterness, adding, "That, among all her faults, she thanked Heaven her enemies could not accuse her of prying into the affairs of other people.
 
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