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Tainted definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TA'INTED, pp. Impregnated with something noxious, disagreeable to the senses or poisonous; infected;corrupted; stained.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: corrupt, tainted]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Taint Taint, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tainted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tainting.] To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see taint

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, bad, bad for, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, blown, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, darkened, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dirtied, discolored, diseased, dissolute, drabbled, draggled, foul, fouled, foxed, foxy, frowy, gamy, gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, high, impure, indecent, infected, injurious, inky, insalubrious, insanitary, maculate, morally polluted, morbid, morbific, mortified, murky, noisome, noxious, off, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, perverted, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, profligate, rancid, rank, reechy, reprobate, rotten, septic, smirched, smoky, smudged, soiled, sour, soured, sphacelated, spotted, stained, stale, steeped in iniquity, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, strong, sullied, tarnished, turned, ulcerated, ulcerous, unchaste, unclean, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unvirginal, unvirtuous, unwholesome, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped