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Adjective tainted has 2 senses
- corrupt, tainted - touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic"
Antonyms: unrotten, unrotted (indirect, via rotten)
- besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished - especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"
Antonym: unblemished (indirect, via blemished)
Verb taint has 2 senses
- defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud - place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"
--1 is one way to mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- infect, taint - contaminate with a disease or microorganism
--2 is one way to pollute, foul, contaminate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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