taint🔊

A (contamination), (decay) or (putrefaction), especially in (food).

A tinge, trace or touch.

A mark of (disgrace), especially on one's (character); blemish.

(obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.

(obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.

(programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

To (contaminate) or (corrupt) (something) with an external (agent), either (physically) or (morally).

To (spoil) (food) by (contamination).

To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

(programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.

(finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

A (thrust) with a (lance), which fails of its intended (effect).

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.

To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

(slang) The (perineum).

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