Attaint

Definition: Attaint

Attaint

Verb

1. Bring dishonor upon.

2. Condemn by attainder.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attaint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Attaint

Condemnation

Verb: condemn, convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty, damn, doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on, attaint, confiscate, proscribe, sequestrate; nonsuit.

Crosswords: Attaint

Albanian

turpëroj (confuse, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliate, mortify, spot), turp (bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, taint, turpitude). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осъждам на смърт, опозорявам (bring on reproach, defame, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, gibbet, stigmatize, tear down), опетнявам (besmirch, darken, imbrue, maculate, mire, pollute, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), лишавам от граждански права (disenfranchise, disfranchise), поразявам (amaze, astound, defeat, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, stare, strike down, wow), позор (contumely, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, stigma), петно (blob, blot, blotch, dab, daub, defilement, flaw, fleck, mottle, note, offset, reflection, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, stigma, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references)

French

infester. (various references)

German

befallen (affect, affected, assail, assault, attack, befall, beset, diseased, grip, infest, infested, overcome, seize, seized with, smite, strike). (various references)

Greek 

κηλιδώ (blur, imbrue), ατιμάζω (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour). (various references)

Hungarian

bemocskol (bedabble, befoul, begrime, besmirch, defile, dirty, foul, mire, smear, to blemish, to defile, to dirty, to foul, to grime, to mire, to slubber, to smut, to soil, to spatter, to splatter, to taint), bíróság elítélése téves ítélet miatt. (various references)

Italian

privare dei diritti civili. (various references)

Pig Latin

attaintay.(various references)

Portuguese

desonrar (defile, disgrace, dishallow, dishonor, dishonour, foul, profane, smirch), desonra (black eye, blemish, brand, contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, obloquy, scandal, seduction, shame, stain, stigma), descrédito (discredit, dishonor, dishonour, disparagement, disreputation, disrepute, obloquy, reproach), desacreditar (debunk, decry, discredit, disgrace, impeach, reproach, vilify), degradar (bastardize, break, degrade, demote, diminish, prostitute, put down), degradação (abjection), corromper (adulterate, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, taint, vitiate), contaminar (contaminate, infect, inoculate, taint, vitiate), condenar (adjudge, condemn, convict, cuss, damn, denounce, devote, doom, misdeem, reprobate, sentence). (various references)

Romanian

pune în afara legii (proscribe), perderea drepturilor, pãta (blemish, cloud, foul, maculate, Mark, slop, smear, smirch, smut, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spoil, spot, stain, sully), infecta (canker, contaminate, corrupt, infect, poison, rankle, taint), dezonora (blot, bring reproach upon, degrade, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul, pollute, ruin, spot), dezonoare (attainder, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, disrepute), condamna la confiscarea bunurilor. (various references)

Russian 

бесчестить (defame, dishonor, dishonour, stigmatize), пятно (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, patch, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma, taint), позор (disgrace, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, shamefulness, stigma, taint). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zahvatiti (grab, scoop, seize), sramota (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, outrage, shame), osuditi na smrt ili progon, mrlja (blot, dab, fleck, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain, taint). (various references)

Spanish

aquejar (attack), condenar a muerte civil. (various references)

Turkish

ayıp (blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, unmannerly, what a shame), yakalanmak (attack, be smitten with, be taken with, become infected, catch, catch an infection, incur, smite), tutulmak (attack, be at a premium, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be held, be in a request, be smitten with, be stuck, be stuck on, be taken, be taken with, catch on, come in, come up, drop, go into, have a crush on smb., incur, indulge, make a hit, smite, stiffen), rezil etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify, wreck), lekelemek (asperse, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), idam mahkumunun vatandaşlık haklarını kaldırmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

ганьбити (abuse, animadvert, asperse, besmirch, blaspheme, defame, disgrace, inveigh, reproach, scandalize, shame, soil, spot, stain, tarnish, tongue, vilify, vituperate, wrong), знеславлювати (calumniate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết hoen ố. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "attaint": attainted, attainting, attaints. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Attaint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ashtiani, Attitb. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: attain.

-2 letters: taint, titan.

-3 letters: anta, anti, tain, tint.

-4 letters: ain, ait, ana, ani, ant, att, nit, tan, tat, tin.

-5 letters: aa, ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: antistat, attaints, titanate.

+2 letters: antistate, attainted, tantalite, titanates.

+3 letters: antimatter, antistatic, attainment, attainting, attracting, attraction, intrastate, quantitate, tantalites.

+4 letters: antimatters, aquatintist, attainments, attentional, attenuating, attenuation, attestation, attitudinal, attractions, attritional, instantiate, interactant, jactitation, pitapatting, quantitated, quantitates, transmittal.

+5 letters: anticatalyst, antiliterate, antipathetic, antithetical, aquatintists, attenuations, attestations, authenticate, autorotating, autorotation, fantasticate, instantiated, instantiates, interactants, jactitations, quantitating, quantitation, quantitative, scatteration, somatostatin, standpattism, statistician, substantiate, tetanization, totalitarian, transmittals, ultradistant, unattractive.