Definitions
contaminate with a disease or microorganism
Word origin
From Middle French teint, from Old French teint (past participle of teindre (“to dye, to tinge”)), from Latin tinctum (past participle of tingere); compare tint.
Used in a sentence
“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies, - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”
“A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement.”
“He had inherited from his ancestors a scrofulous taint, which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Contaminate slightly”5 letters
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