transitive verb. To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance.

transitive verb. To subject to decay or putrefaction: synonym: contaminate.

noun. An undesirable or corrupting influence or association: synonym: stain.

noun. An undesirable quality; a defect or shortcoming.

noun. The perineum.

Tainted; touched; imbued.

noun. Color; hue; dye; tinge.

noun. A stain; a spot; a blemish; a touch of discredit or dishonor.

noun. An infecting tinge; a trace; a touch.

noun. A corrupting or contaminating influence, physical or moral; a cause or condition of depravation or decay; an infection.

noun. A certain spider of small size and red color, reputed to be poisonous: perhaps a species of Latrodectus, but probably only a harvest-mite, and not poisonous.

To touch or hit in tilting; reach with a thrust, as of a lance or other weapon.

To thrust, as a lance or other weapon, especially in tilting.

To make an effort or essay, as a juster; tilt, as in the just; make a thrust.

noun. A thrust, as of a lance in tilting; especially, a preliminary movement or trial with a weapon, as in the tilt, or, by extension, in battle.

To attaint.

To tinge; tincture; hence, to imbue; touch; affect.

To imbue with something of a deleterious or offensive nature; infect or impregnate with a noxious substance or principle; affect with insalubrity, contagion, disease, or the like.

To make noisome or poisonous in constitution; corrupt the elements of; render putrid, deleterious, or unfit for use as food or drink.

To corrupt morally; imbue with perverse or objectionable ideas; exert a vitiating influence over; pervert; contaminate.

To give a corrupted character or appearance to; affect injuriously; stain; sully; tarnish.

To disgrace; fix contumely upon.

To treat with a tincture; embrocate; mollify.

= Syn. 2-5. Contaminate, Defile, Taint, Pollute, Corrupt, Vitiate. Whether these words are regarded as meaning the injuring of purity or the spoiling of value, they are in the order of strength, except that each is used in different degrees of strength, and that vitiate is one of the weaker words and taint a strong word for rendering impure. Corrupt means the absolute destruction of purity. They all suggest an influence from without coming upon or into that whose purity or value is injured.

To be tinged or tinctured; become imbued or touched.

To become tainted or rancid; be affected with incipient putrefaction.

noun. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

transitive verb. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

transitive verb. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

intransitive verb. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

intransitive verb. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

transitive verb. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison.

transitive verb. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

noun. Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

noun. Infection; corruption; deprivation.

noun. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

transitive verb. Aphetic form of attaint.

noun. The perineum.

noun. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food

noun. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish

noun. tincture; hue; colour

noun. infection; corruption; deprivation

verb. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.

verb. To spoil (food) by contamination.

noun. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

noun. 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.

"But the taint is also spreading to the city itself, which is being portrayed in an unflattering and unsettling way."