Definitions from Wiktionary (taint)
▸ noun: A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
▸ noun: A tinge, trace or touch.
▸ noun: A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
▸ noun: (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
▸ verb: (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
▸ verb: (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
▸ 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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
▸ noun: (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
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▸ noun: A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
▸ noun: A tinge, trace or touch.
▸ noun: A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
▸ noun: (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
▸ verb: (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
▸ verb: (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
▸ verb: (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
▸ 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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
▸ noun: (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
▸ Also see taint
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