单词	taint
释义	taint1 verbtaint2 noun tainttaint1 /teɪnt/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINtaint1 Origin: 1500-1600 Partly from Anglo-French teinter ‘to color’, from Latin tingere ( ➔ TINGE2); partly from Old French ataint, from ataindre ( ➔ ATTAIN) Verb Table VERB TABLE taint Simple Form Present I, you, we, they taint he, she, it taints Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they tainted Present perfect I, you, we, they have tainted he, she, it has tainted Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had tainted Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will taint Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have tainted Continuous Form Present I am tainting he, she, it is tainting you, we, they are tainting Past I, he, she, it was tainting you, we, they were tainting Present perfect I, you, we, they have been tainting he, she, it has been tainting Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been tainting Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be tainting Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been tainting Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES It appeared the water supply had been tainted with a deadly toxin. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As a result, consumers no longer see used vehicles as somehow tainted and risky. Catty and stale aromas may develop and taint the beer. In this interpretation, Benjamin has been tainted by his relationship with Mrs Robinson and her alcoholic self-loathing. Some of the front-runners fortunately are not tainted by committee membership, nor do they look like Ed Moore clones. The spreading leprosy taints ev'ry part, Infects each limb, and sickens at the heart. Will their reputations be tainted by something that may end up a cruel game of Washington politics? 1if a situation or person is tainted by something, it damages them by making them seem bad:  Baker argues that his trial was tainted by negative publicity.2to damage something by adding an unwanted substance to itbe tainted with something The water had been tainted with a deadly toxin.GRAMMAR Taint is usually passive. taint1 verbtaint2 noun tainttaint2 noun [singular] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But the scruples would spawn in his head, giving a cynical taint to his image of himself. By age thirty, $ 500, 000-and that sum had the taint of the mediocre. From the taint of sadism, the hint of superiority, the woman evidently wanted her to fail. I understood the taint that adheres to everything domestic. Neither were judicial and court officials free from the taint of corruption. Other aspects of acceptability relate to the product behaviour in relation to taint, corrosion and harmonisation with house colour codes. The taint of politics in conservation is not peculiar to the federal agencies. the appearance of being related to something bad or morally wrongtaint of The city has suffered for many years under the taint of corruption.
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