Reverse Dictionary: TAINT

ADJECTIVES
► APONTED tainted → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FLYBLOWN contaminated; tainted
► KINEY fusty, tainted → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MEESY tainted, unsavoury → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAPPY of meat: putrescent, tainted → 1573 Eng. dial.
► TAINT spoiled, tainted → 1934 Amer. dial.
► TAINTY tainted, spoiled → 1966 Amer. dial.
► TINTED tainted → 1967 Amer. dial.

NOUNS
► NADKIN ► NATKIN a strong, unpleasant odour or taste; the taint acquired by meat kept too long → 1825 Sc. obs.
► TAINTURE tainting, staining, stain, defilement, pollution, infection → 1593 obs.

VERBS
► AFILE to defile; to render morally foul or pollute; to destroy the ideal purity of; to corrupt, to taint, to sully  → a1000 obs.
► CANKER to begin to decay; to spoil; to become tainted → 1953 Amer. dial.
► FADE to deprive of freshness or vigour; to corrupt, to taint → c1400 obs.
► POLLUTE to make physically impure, foul, or filthy; to dirty, to stain, to taint → 1548
► RUST to corrupt or contaminate morally or physically; to taint; to infect → 1493
► SMIRCH to cast discredit or disgrace upon a person; to bring into ill-repute; to taint or tarnish → 1820
► SMIT to defile; to taint with pride a vice, etc.; to contaminate morally → a1000 obs.
► SMITE to pollute; to taint; to stain → a1000 obs.
► TACK to taint, to infect → 1601 obs.