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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > corrupt > taint or infect (15)
smiteeOE

transitive. To pollute; to taint; to stain. Obsolete.

besmiteeOE

transitive. To pollute, to stain, to taint; to corrupt. Cf. smite, v. 2. Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use).

smitOE

transitive. To contaminate morally; to taint with pride, a vice, etc.; to defile. Obsolete.

besmita1250

transitive. To stain, infect (as with disease), contaminate. (Mostly figurative.)

empoisonc1400

transitive. To taint with sin or error; to corrupt; to exert an evil influence on; = poison, v. 2a. Now rare except as merged with sense 6.

fadec1400

transitive. To weaken; to deprive of freshness or vigour; to corrupt, taint. Obsolete.

infect?c1400

transitive. To taint or contaminate (a person or thing) with moral corruption; to deprave; to exert a bad influence upon character or habits.

attainta1529

(Influenced by taint, n.1): To affect with any contagion; to infect. Obsolete.

leaven1534

transitive. figurative and in figurative contexts. To permeate with a transforming influence as leaven does; to imbue or mingle with some tempering…

inquinate1542

transitive. To pollute, defile, corrupt.

contaminate1563

transitive. To render impure by contact or mixture; to corrupt, defile, pollute, sully, taint, infect.

taint1573

transitive. To infect with pernicious, noxious, corrupting or deleterious qualities; to touch with putrefaction; to corrupt, contaminate, deprave.

tack1601

transitive. To taint, infect; ? to tinge, stain; dialect to give a smack or tang to.

beleper?a1625

transitive. To afflict with, or as with, leprosy.

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