Taint: alternatives and connections

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

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Same as Deflour.

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A bird.

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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

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The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

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The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.

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The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.

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