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Taint

Definitions: Taint

Taint

Noun

1. The state of being contaminated.

Verb

1. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation".

2. Contaminate with a disease or microorganism.

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

Date "taint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Taint

DomainDefinitions

Tips from 1870

Usage: Haint, Taint. Haint is used indiscriminately for haven't and hasn't. Taint is used for tisn't. Their use is indicative of an entire lack of culture. Source: Slips of Speech.

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

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Synonyms: Taint

Synonyms: contamination (n), cloud (v), corrupt (v), defile (v), infect (v), sully (v). (additional references)
Antonym: disinfect (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Taint

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deterioration

Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Disease

Taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity, infestation; epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.

Disrepute

Tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.

Tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel; (punish).

Imperfection

Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side.

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Defilement, contamination; Verb: defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Taint

English words defined with "taint": Corruption of bloodFlyblowgamey, gamyhighJacobinizeQuitchstained glassTainting, Taintless, Tainture, To blow upon. (references)
Specialty definitions using "taint": Baptism of Christ, boar taint, bone taintHaintScarification. (references)
Etymologies containing "taint": Tainture, Tant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Taint

DomainUsage

Clever

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.'' (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

The Taint (1914)

Taint (1994)

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

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Commercial Usage: Taint

DomainTitle

Books

  • Doctor Who and the Taint (Doctor Who Series) (reference)

  • Reinforced Plastics Freight Containers: Code of Practice for the Avoidance of Taint [And], Specification for Taint Testing (Revised) (reference)

  • Taint of Madness: Insanity and Dread Within Asylum Walls (reference)

  • The First Taint of Civilization: A History of the Caroline and Marshall Islands in Pre-Colonial Days, 1521-1885 (reference)

  • The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones (Call of Cthulhu Fiction) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Familiar Quotations: Taint

AuthorQuotation

René Descartes

. . . of all the sciences known as yet, Arithmetic and Geometry alone are free from any taint of falsity or uncertainty.

Samuel Butler

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Taint

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The sewer is the taint which the city has in her blood.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Taint

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Albania

The courts accuse the police of failing to provide the solid investigation and evidence necessary to prosecute successfully, and the police allege that corruption and bribery taint the courts. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Taint

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Buchanan

1857-1861Next in importance to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union is the duty of preserving the Government free from the taint or even the suspicion of corruption.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Taint

"Taint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.17% of the time. "Taint" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)73.17%6043,597
Lexical Verb (infinitive)19.51%1687,710
Lexical Verb (base form)7.32%6143,867
                    Total100.00%82N/A

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Expressions: Taint

Expressions using "taint": boar taint bone taint free from taint not free from the taint of corruption. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "taint": taint-proof.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Taint

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

taint

92

lick taint

7

cork taint

3

septet skeriks syncopated taint

3
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Modern Translations: Taint

Language Translations for "taint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

bederf (bribe, corruption, damage, decay, depravation, go bad, injure, putrefy, rot, spoil). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

turp (attaint, bashfulness, black eye, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, fie upon you, for shame, infamy, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, pudency, reproach, shame, stain, stigma, turpitude), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, vitiation, warp, wrecking), njollë (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma), moleps (contaminate, foul, infect, pollute), kalbje (caries, decay, putrefaction, rot), infeksion (infection). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لوث (bedaub, befoul, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), ‏لطخ (bedaub, besmear, blot, blotch, blur, daub, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, splash, splotch, spot, stain, streak, sully, tarnish), ‏تلوث (become defiled, contamination, dirtiness, dirty, foul, impurity, infection, pollution, soil, stain, tarnish), ‏تحلل (break down, disintegration, molder, moldiness, moulder, mouldiness), ‏عفن (corrupt, decay, decompose, frowsty, fusty, mildew, mold, mould, musty, obnoxious, putrefaction, putrefy, putrid, rank, reek, rotten, septic, spoilt, stale), ‏عار (bare, black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, unclad, uncovered), ‏جرثومة (embryo, germ, microbe, sperm, virus), ‏أصبح معدي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

следа от нещо лошо, развалям се (addle, conk, fail, go bad, turn, turn off, turn sour), зараза (contagion, contamination, infection, virus), замърсявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, foul up, pollute, vitiate), покварявам (corrupt, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvert), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, obliquity, rot, ruin, ulcer), позорно петно, петънце (mote, speck, speckle, spot), петно (attaint, blob, blot, blotch, dab, daub, defilement, flaw, fleck, mottle, note, offset, reflection, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, stigma, sully, tarnish). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

污點 (stain), 污" (Pollute, Polluted, Polluting, Pollution). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zpùsobit zkažení, zhanobit (desecrate, violate), zamořit (contaminate, infest, overrun, plague), skvrna (blob, blot, blotch, blur, carbuncle, fleck, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spatter, speck, splash, spot, stain, tarnish), poskvrnit (befoul, dapple, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, spot, stain, sully, tarnish), pošpinit (besmirch, blemish, defile, soil, spatter, stain, tarnish, thumb), otrávit (disgust, empoison, envenom, frustrate, pip, poison), nákaza (contagion, infection, pestilence, virus), kazit se (decay, go bad, putrefy). (various references)

   

Danish

  

misfarvning af knoglen (bone taint), arvelig belastning (hereditary taint). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bederf (corruption, decay, depravation, diseases(of wine), spoilage(of wine)). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malboniĝo (corruption, decay, depravation). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

فاسدکردن (Bastardize, Canker, Corrupt, Debauch, Deprave, Rot, Ruin, Spoil, Vitiate), ملوث کردن (Deflower, Infect, Ntaminate, Pollute), لکه دارکردن (Blame, Blemish, Brand, Denigrate, Foul, Smear, Soil, Speck, Stain, Stigmatize, Sully, Tarnish), لکه (Blob, Blot, Blotch, Blur, Dirt, Dot, Freckle, Gall, Glob, Pip, Smear, Smooch, Smudge, Smut, Splotch, Spot, Stain), عیب (Blot, Defect, Gall, Vice), الوده شدن (Sully), رنگ کردن (Colony, Dye, Paint). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tahrata (dirty, smear, soil, stain), tahra (blemish, blot, daub, flaw, macula, macule, smear, spot, stain), saastutus (contamination), saastuttaa (contaminate, infect, pollute, to contaminate, to infest), saasta (filth, impurity), häpeäpilkku (blot, stain). (various references)

   

French

  

trace, vicier, souillure, souiller, s'infecter, se polluer, pourrir, infection, gâter, entacher, décomposition, corruption, corrompre. (various references)

   

German

  

verderben (abase, addle, adulterate, bane, banes, barbarize, become corrupted, become depraved, become ruined, become spoiled, blight, break down, bribe, contaminate, corrupt, damage, debauch, deprave, destroy, disaster, doom, go bad, go off, going off, infect, injure, kill, Mar, molder, perdition, perditions, pervert, pollute, pollution, put off, ruin, ruination, ruining, set off, smear, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoilt, spot, stain, to barbarize, to debauch, to deprave, to spoil, to taint, undoing, vitiate, vitiation, wreck). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κηλίδα (blemish, blot, blur, bruise, bruising, macula, macule, moil, mottle, patch, slick, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain), μόλυσμα (inoculum), μιαίνω (contaminate, pollute), μολύνω (contaminate, defile, foul, infect, pollute, to contaminate, to infest). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לאלח (contaminate, infect), לז"ם (contaminate, grime, infect, pollute), ל"כתים (smirch, stain, stigmatize, tarnish), ל"כפיש (bedraggle, smirch, sully), לטמא (contaminate, defile), "ופי (blemish, fault, flaw, impurity, insult, scorn, slur, smirch), רבב (slur, smudge, speckle, stain). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

romlottság (corruption, corruptness, depravation, depravity, perversion, perversity), megfertõzés (pollution), megfertõz (contaminate, infect, poison, pollute, vitiate). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

noda (blot, ignominy, macula, spot, stain, tarnish), menodai (besmirch, blemis, blot, disfigure, tarnish). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tara (defect, discount, tare, tare weight, unladen weight), marchio (badge, brand, crest, earmark, logo, make, Mark, monogram, stamp, time, trademark), macchia (blemish, blob, blot, blotch, brush, brushwood, dab, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, Dot, fleck, macula, macule, maquis, Mark, patch, rough, scrub, shading, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, speck, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stroke, thicket), infezione (an attack and investment by microscopic organisms or viruses(if on living tissue, by pathogens)as distinct from infestation, contage, contamination, infection), infettarsi, guastare (damage, derange, fail, Mar, ruin, soil, spoil, warp), corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, debauch, deprave, pervert, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce). (various references)

   

Manx

  

breinnid (dirtiness, foetidness, foulness, rancidity, rankness), breinnaghey (become smelly, befoul, foul, go off, go off as milk, putrefy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainttay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

viciar (addict, debauch, spoil, vitiate), nódoa (blur, fleck, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, staining, tarnish), manchar (befoul, besmirch, blemish, blight, blotch, blur, dirty, discoloration, discoloured, fleck, foul, Fox, maculate, pollute, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, stain, sully), mancha (blemish, bloom, blot, blotch, blur, Brindle, cloud, dapple, defilement, dimming, flaw, fleck, Guidon, marking ink, reproach, scar, shading, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, staining, tarnish), mácula (blot, defilement, scar, smirch, spot, stain), infectar (diseased, infect, inoculate), defeito (aberration, abuse, blemish, blister, blot, bug, defect, defect in wood, deficiency, degrade, error, failing, fault, flaw, frailty, imperfection, malformed, mistake, shortcoming, vice, weakness), corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, nobble, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, vitiate), contaminar-se, contaminar (attaint, contaminate, infect, inoculate, to contaminate, to infest, vitiate), apodrecer (decay, fester, molder, moulder, putrefy, rot, to decay, to moulder, to rot). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vicia (debauch, infect, vitiate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, vitiate, wreck), spurca (besmear, besmirch, defile, desecrate, dirty, smear, smirch, soil, vitiate), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, tarnish, ulcer), infecta (attaint, canker, contaminate, corrupt, infect, poison, rankle), depravare (corruption, debauchery, degradation, depravation, depravity), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, pervert, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, vitiate), corupţie (bribery, corruption, corruptness, depravity, rottenness, soil, venality), altera (adulterate, alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, distort, forge, spoil), întina (desecrate). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

налет (bloom, deposit, foray, fur, hint, hold up, incrustation, raid, scurf, stick-up), пятно (attaint, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, patch, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma), позор (attaint, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium, reproach, scandal, shame, shamefulness, stigma). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uprljati (become dirty, begrime, defile, dirty, draggle, foul, smirch), pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, tamper), mrlja (attaint, blot, dab, fleck, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain), ljaga (blemish, discredit, plague spot, smirch, stain, stigma). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

putrefacción (corruption, decay, depravation, putrefaction, putrescence, rot, rottenness), deterioración (corruption, decay, depravation, deterioration). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fläck (blemish, blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, fleck, flick, Mark, mottle, patch, slur, smear, smirch, speck, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, stain), besmitta (contaminate, infect). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้"่างพร้อย, ทำให้มีรอยเปื้อน, รอยเปื้อน (grime, smear, smudge, smutch), มีรอยเปื้อน, มีมลทิน (sully), จุ""่างพร้อย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yozlaşma (degeneracy, degeneration, devolution, dry rot, gangrene, graft, retrogression), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, 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, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, tarnish), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, vice), kokuşmak (go bad, putrefy, rot), kokuşma (putrefaction), iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shades, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), hastalık bulaştırmak, bulaştırmak (bedabble, bedaub, besmear, blur, communicate, contaminate, corrupt, daub, dirty, drag, embroil, entangle, imbrue, implicate, infect, involve, inweave, propagate, slush, smear, smudge, splodge, splotch, spread, transmit, twine), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, turn, turn sour, upset), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, dissolution, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, undoing, upset), bozukluk (being broken down, chicken feed, coin, decomposition, defect, deformity, distortion, disturbance, failure, faultiness, foulness, hilliness, irregularity, putrescence, rupture, small chance, unsoundness, upset), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), ahlâkını bozmak (demoralize, deprave). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

наліт (boost, furring, odor, odour, raid, tang, tinct), зараза (contagion, infection, virus, zymosis), заражатися, заражати (canker, contaminate, infect, poison), загниватися, примішувати, порок (blur, defect, evil, sin, vice, wickedness), пляма (blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, macula, maculation, slur, smear, smirch, splash, spot, stain, star). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vết xấu, vết bẩn (tarnish), vết ô uế dấu vết của bệnh di truyền, sự l m suy đ"i vết nhơ, sự l m hư hỏng (depravation), sự l m bại hoại (debauchery), sự l m đ"i bại, dấu hiệu của sự nhiễm bệnh mùi hôi thối, điều xấu di truyền. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Taint

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inficio infeci infectum, macula, maculaberis, maculant, maculasti, maculat, maculata, maculatam, maculatum, maculatur, maculatus, maculaverunt. (various references)

Old English450-1100

geblandan. (various references)

Anglo-French1100-1600

teinter. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

teynten. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Taint

Derivations

Words beginning with "taint": tainted, tainting, taintless, taints. (additional references)

Words ending with "taint": attaint. (additional references)

Words containing "taint": attainted, attainting, attaints, certainties, certainty, mountaintop, mountaintops, uncertainties, uncertainty, untainted. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Taint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atin, atiny, atipt, atnt, baint, caint, laint, qaint, raint, Shiant, tabit, tacin, tagin, taind, taine, taino, tains, Tainsh, tainty, taiot, Taitz, tani, tanid, Tanita, tante, tanti, tanto, tantu, taon, tauno, taunti, taunty, thint, tian, tiana, Tiano, tiantic, tient, tiento, tinit, toait, toint, traint, trint, twant, tzit, waint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Taint"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "taint" (pronounced tā"nt)
3-ā" n tacquaint, complaint, constraint, faint, feint, paint, quaint, repaint, restraint, Saint.

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Anagrams: Taint

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: titan.

Words within the letters "a-i-n-t-t"

-1 letter: anti, tain, tint.

-2 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, att, nit, tan, tat, tin, tit.

-3 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-t-t"
 

+1 letter: attain, intact, lattin, mattin, taints, tanist, titans, titian, titman.

 

+2 letters: antifat, antipot, antitax, attains, attaint, batting, catmint, catting, distant, dittany, fatting, hatting, instant, instate, intrant, intreat, iterant, lattins, matting, mattins, nattier, nattily, nictate, nitrate, patient, patting, ratting, satinet, stating, station, taction, tainted, tanists, tantivy, tantric, tarting, tasting, tatting, tauting, tertian, tetanic, titania, titanic, titians, titrant, transit, vatting.

 

+3 letters: abetting, abutting, anisette, antiatom, anticity, anticult, antidote, antileft, antiriot, antirust, antismut, antistat, antitank, antitype, antsiest, aquatint, astatine, attained, attainer, attaints, attiring, attuning, autunite, banditti, battings, battling, blatting, botanist, catmints, chatting, citation, dilatant, dotation, dratting, entastic, equitant, estating, excitant, faintest, fetation, flatting, gnathite, gnattier, habitant, hesitant, incitant, initiate, instants, instated, instates, interact, intimate, intonate, intranet, intrants, intreats, intubate, irritant, latinity, litigant, lutanist, martinet, mattings, militant, mutating, mutation, nastiest, natality, natation, nativist, nativity, nattiest, naturist, nictated, nictates, nitrated, nitrates, nitrator, notating, notation, nutating, nutation, nystatin, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, outpaint, pantsuit, patients, patinate, pittance, platting, potation, quantity, rattling, reattain, retirant, rotating, rotation, rutilant, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, scatting, slatting, spatting, stannite, starting, stations, stotinka, straiten, strontia, swatting, taciturn, taconite, tactions, tainting, tangiest, tanistry, tantalic, tattings, tattling, taunting, tawniest, taxation, tenacity, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, tetanize, tetanoid, thionate, tinplate, titanate, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanite, titanium, titanous, tithonia, titrants, toasting, tonality, totaling, toxicant, traction, transits, transmit, treating, triptane, tunicate, uintaite, urticant, visitant, volitant, wattling.

 

+4 letters: abstinent, actuating, actuation, admitting, agitating, agitation, allotting, anatomist, anisettes, annuitant, anorthite, antarctic, antiatoms, antidotal, antidoted, antidotes, antidraft, antielite, antiparty, antipasti, antipasto, antipathy, antiquate, antiquity, antirusts, antistate, antistick, antistory, antitheft, antitoxic, antitoxin, antitrust, antitumor, antitypes, antiwhite, aquatints, argentite, assistant, astatines, atonalist, atonality, attaching, attacking, attainder, attainers, attaining, attainted, attending, attention, attentive, attesting, attorning, attrition, auntliest, austenite, authentic, autunites, battalion, battening, battering, battiness, botanists, brattling, carnotite, catatonia, catatonic, cattiness, certainty, citations, crepitant, daintiest, defatting, deratting, dictating, dictation, dietitian, dilatants, disputant, distantly, distraint, dittanies, dotations, emittance, entertain, estaminet, excitants, facetting, fantasist, fantastic, fattening, fattiness, festinate, fetations, flotation, garotting, gavotting, gazetting, gestating, gestation, gnathites, gnattiest, gustation, guttation, habitants, imitating, imitation, impatient, important, incitants, infatuate, infestant, initiated, initiates, initiator, injectant, inpatient, insatiate, instanter, instantly, instating, instigate, integrate, intendant, interacts, intestacy, intestate, intimated, intimater, intimates, intonated, intonates, intranets, intreated, intricate, intrigant, intubated, intubates, irritants, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, jauntiest, lactating, lactation, latticing, litigants, lutanists, magnetite, manicotti, martinets, maternity, mattering, matutinal, mentalist, mentality, mentation, militants, ministate, mutations, natations, natatoria, nativists, natrolite, nattering, nattiness, naturists, negotiant, negotiate, nictating, nictitate, nitrating, nitration, nitrators, nonartist, notations, novitiate, nutations, nystatins, obstinate, orientate, ostinatos, outacting, outdating, outeating, outpaints, outrating, paintiest, palpitant, panettoni, pantheist, pantsuits, partition, patenting, paternity, patienter, patiently, patinated, patinates, pattering, pectinate, pittances, plaintext, potations, potential, prattling, protistan, quaintest, quittance, quotation, rattening, rattlings, reattains, reinstate, resistant, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, rotations, saltation, sanitated, sanitates, satanists, satiating, satiation, scantiest, sententia, siltation, situating, situation, slattings, splatting, squatting, staminate, stannites, startling, stational, stationed, stationer, sterilant, stimulant, straitens, striating, striation, strontias, syntactic, tableting, tacitness, taconites, tactician, taintless, tangliest, tantalise, tantalite, tantalize, tantivies, tanzanite, tarantism, targeting, tarnation, tastiness, tattering, tattiness, tattooing, tautening, taxations, tearstain, tenanting, tentative, terminate, tetanised, tetanises, tetanized, tetanizes, thatching, thionates, threating, throating, thwarting, timpanist, tinplates, titanates, titanisms, titanites, titaniums, tithonias, titrating, titration, totalling, toxicants, tractions, tradition, transfixt, transient, transited, transmits, trepidant, triathlon, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, truanting, tuitional, tunicated, tunicates, turbinate, twangiest, twattling, tympanist, uintahite, uintaites, ultrathin, unhatting, unstating, untainted, urticants, ventifact, ventilate, visitants, vitiating, vitiation, withstand, yattering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Taint


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 69 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    ..    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0069 006E 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5467758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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