Crossword-Solution: TAINT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taint | n. | A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. |
| Taint | n. | 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. |
| Taint | v. i. | To thrust ineffectually with a lance. |
| Taint | v. t. | To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner. |
| Taint | v. t. | To hit or touch lightly, in tilting. |
| Taint | v. t. | 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. |
| Taint | v. t. | Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish. |
| Taint | v. i. | To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting. |
| Taint | v. i. | To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather. |
| Taint | n. | Tincture; hue; color; tinge. |
| Taint | n. | Infection; corruption; deprivation. |
| Taint | n. | A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAINT | anagram | NITTA, TANIT, TANTI, TATIN, TIANT, TINTA, TITAN |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TAINT (5)
She shall be taken to some desert place By man untrod, and in a rock-hewn cave, With food no more than to avoid the taint That homicide might bring on all the State, Buried alive.
Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman’s beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
After trying the political atmosphere of the neighboring monarchies, it is healing and refreshing to breathe in air that has known no taint of slavery for six hundred years, and to come among a people whose political history is great and fine, and worthy to be taught in all schools and studied by all races and peoples.
Once subjected to the chromatic taint, every parental and every childish Circle would demoralize each other.
The wind is a mighty roamer; He bids me keep me free, Clean from the taint of the gold-lust, Hardy and pure as he; Cling with my love to nature, As a child to the mother-knee.
Quotes with TAINT (3)
The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
She blinked her eyes open, her lips parted and cheeks flushed, looking every bit like a goddess before him. And if he were a better man, he wouldn’t have been able to taint such purity. But he wasn’t a better man, and there was no turning back now.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 309 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).