English Dictionary

taint

/teɪnt/

verb

(transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. / (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.

The spoiled milk taints the entire batch.

意味（1）

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

His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.

意味（2）

(transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.

意味（3）

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

I cannot taint with fear.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

Meat soon taints in warm weather.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

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