| 释义 |
taint /tānt/ noun- A stain or blemish
- Pollution
- Infection
- A tinge of some evil quality
- A contaminating or corrupting influence
- A latent or incipient defect or corruption
- Attaint (obsolete)
- A hit in tilting (obsolete)
- Tint, tinge (obsolete)
transitive verb- To affect or imbue with anything objectionable
- To contaminate or infect
- To impart a taint to, to tarnish
- To attaint (obsolete)
- To touch in tilting (obsolete)
- To tint, tinge (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To become infected or rotten
- To go bad
- 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 |