Taint

Antonyms for taint:

clarify, cleanse, clean, purify, bless.

Synonyms for taint:

Sense 1

harm, doom, loose on, impugn, traduce, impair, strike at, offset, overshadow, negate, attaint, cancel out, demean, undermine, take away from, demonize, shame, coarsen, clobber, muck up.

Sense 2

bite, decay, skew, cheapen, disgrace, cost, ail, drag down, besmear, black eye, onus, rot, molder, malign, poison, neutralize, discredit, nullify, dehumanize.

Sense 3

bruise, bespatter, smut, decompose, put out, breed.

Sense 4

disintegrate, spatter, deteriorate.

Sense 5

blacken.

Sense 6

drive.

Sense 9

HIT.

Sense 22

turn.

contaminate

muck up.

tinge

tint.

Other synonyms and related words:

daub, deteriorate, profane, cost, misdirect, dehumanize, demoralise, doom, slur, contaminant, adulterate, spatter, contamination, traduce, poison, attaint, becloud, debase, undermine, impugn, harm, deprave, discredit, bite, buy, offset, malign, befog, rot, illness, turn, stigma, subvert, debauch, drive, molder, smut, fault, defame, obscure, imperfection, vitiate, mist, neutralize, pollution, mottle, coarsen, blur, dirt, pervert, bespatter, maculate, onus, disfigurement, slander, clobber, disgrace, dent, corrupt, cheapen, blacken, disintegrate, overshadow, decay, shame, decompose, fog, black eye, calumniate, denigrate, cloud, impair, demoralize, brand, overcast, besmear, deformity, bribe, Obnubilate, asperse, tint, infect, haze over, demean.

Sense 1 (noun)

harm, offset, overshadow, rot, decay, loose on, cost, cancel out, neutralize.

Sense 2 (noun)

bruise, disintegrate, deteriorate, turn, decompose, molder, discredit.

Sense 4 (noun)

bespatter, smut, blacken, spatter, besmear.

adulteration (noun)

contamination.

blemish (noun)

scar, speck.

contamination, corruption (noun)

defect, blot, pollution, shame, smear, disgrace, spot, flaw, blemish, stigma, stain, fault.

pollution (noun)

pollution.

shame (noun)

stigma.

taint (noun)

corrupt, cloud, sully, defile, infect, contamination.

blemish (verb)

dot, blister, distort, mar, fleck, discolor, blemish, abrade, notch, scuff, damage, nick, gash, disfigure, hack, deform, scratch, chip, freckle, deface, speck, pockmark, slit, flaw, scar, mark, defect, hurt, tarnish, check, splotch, kink, fracture, spot, blot, score, stain, scrape, spoil.

dirty (verb)

besmirch, pollute, smear, befoul, muddy, soil, smudge, dirty, contaminate, defile, streak, sully, smirch, foul, putrefy.

dirty, contaminate; ruin (verb)

decompose, blur, corrupt, foul, blacken, muddy, infect, decay, tarnish, putrefy, discolor, rot, defile, besmirch, harm, adulterate, damage, spoil, hurt, pollute, poison, deprave, debase, cloud, soil, discredit, sully, turn, disintegrate, brand.

weaken (verb)

adulterate.

Usage examples for taint:

• All St. Martin's has a distinctive smell, as of an arid dried- out swamp, with a faint taint of fish. - "Monkey On His Back", Charles V. De Vet.
• Ivan was gazing into a pair of clear, blue eyes, and realizing that there was no taint of vodka in the other's breath. - "The Genius", Margaret Horton Potter.