| 单词 | taint |
| 释义 | taint (once / 798 pages) vn Taint means to contaminate. If your water supply is tainted with arsenic, you should stop drinking it right away. Tainted and "tinted" are similarly spelled words with dissimilar meanings–-"tint" is what happens when you add color to something––if you tint white with red, you get pink. On the other hand, if you taint something, you are somehow spoiling or corrupting it. If you taint meat with the salmonella virus, you have a disaster and a public panic. WORD FAMILYtaint: tainted, tainting, taints+/tainted: untainted/untainted: untaintedly USAGE EXAMPLESI hardly touched it, believing it to be tainted, stained. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Prosecutors say the center used expired ingredients and failed to follow cleanliness standards, resulting in tainted steroid injections. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) In response to these concerns, Tesla denied that the sources of its battery materials are tainted by abuses. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) 1v place under suspicion or cast doubt upon Syn|Hyper cloud, corrupt, defile, sully deflower, impair, mar, spoil, vitiate make imperfect 2v contaminate with a disease or microorganism Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper infect disinfect destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing superinfect infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms smutaffect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn contaminate, foul, pollute make impure 3n the state of being contaminated Syn|Hypo|Hyper contamination dust contamination state of being contaminated with dust impureness, impurity the condition of being impure |
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