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单词 'taint
释义

'taint /tānt/ (slang or non-standard) contraction of it is not

taint /tānt/

noun
  1. A stain or blemish
  2. Pollution
  3. Infection
  4. A tinge of some evil quality
  5. A contaminating or corrupting influence
  6. A latent or incipient defect or corruption
  7. Attaint (obsolete)
  8. A hit in tilting (obsolete)
  9. Tint, tinge (obsolete)
transitive verb
  1. To affect or imbue with anything objectionable
  2. To contaminate or infect
  3. To impart a taint to, to tarnish
  4. To attaint (obsolete)
  5. To touch in tilting (obsolete)
  6. To tint, tinge (obsolete)
intransitive verb
  1. To become infected or rotten
  2. To go bad
  3. To weaken, wilt, wither
ORIGIN: Partly aphetic for attaint; partly OFr taint (Fr teint), from L tinctus, -ūs, from tingere, tinctum to wet, dye

taintˈed adjective

taintˈless adjective

taintˈlessly adverb

taintˈure noun

Defilement

taintˈ-worm noun (Milton)

A worm supposed to infect cattle

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