Rot vs Taint - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rot and taint

is that rot is meat roasted on a spit while taint is a (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l) or taint can be a (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l) or taint can be (slang) the (l).

As a verb taint is

to (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l) or taint can be to damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

rot

English

Verb

(rott)

To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

* Alexander Pope

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .

To decline in function or utility.

To deteriorate in any way.

I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.

* Macaulay

Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

* Thackeray

Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.

To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

to rot vegetable fiber

To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

Derived terms

* potter's rot

Noun

(en noun)

The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.

* Milton

His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

Verbal nonsense.

Synonyms

* (nonsense) See also

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English intransitive verbs ----

taint

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )

Noun

(en noun)

A (l), (l) or (l), especially in (l)

A mark of (l), especially on one's (l); blemish

(obsolete) tincture; hue; colour

(obsolete) infection; corruption; deprivation

He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.

Verb

(en verb)

To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).

* Shakespeare

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

To (l) (food) by (l).

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

* Shakespeare

I cannot taint with fear.

To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

Meat soon taints in warm weather.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.

Noun

(en noun)

A (l) with a (l), which fails of its intended (l).

An (l) done to a (l) in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a (l) or unscientific manner.

Verb

(en verb)

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

* Massinger

Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.

To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

* Ld. Berners

They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.

To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

Etymology 3

Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) The (l).

* 2000 June 17, "Marc Newman" (username), " Re: Americas are overated", in talk.politics.guns, Usenet :

Sorry you feel that way. But since your mother sucks cocks in hell if I go there I won't be rotting.....I'll be on line right behind you hoping to get another good head job from your Mom or Sister....if you can remember which is which.......(Moms the one with the beard on her taint )

* 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), " Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :

Even her taint 's raw?

* 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), " Re: Huck Finn 2010-anyone going?", in rec.sport.disc, Usenet :

Did you know that guy has absolutely no tan lines? He'll show his taint to prove it!

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l)