Taint vs Contaminate - What's the difference?
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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
To (l) or (l) (something) with an external (l), either (l) or (l).
* Shakespeare
To (l) (food) by (l).
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
* Shakespeare
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
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.
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
* Massinger
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
* Ld. Berners
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
(slang) The (l).
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* 2005 July 14, "Noodles Jefferson" (username), "
* 2010 February 22, "Duchamanos" (username), "
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
* Shakespeare
* Goldsmith
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Contaminate is a synonym of taint.
In transitive terms the difference between taint and contaminate
is that taint is to hit or touch lightly, in tilting while contaminate is to soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.As a noun taint
is a contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.taint
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tingere, tinctum via (etyl) teint (past participle of )Noun
(en noun)- He had inherited from his parents a scrofulous taint , which it was beyond the power of medicine to remove. — Macaulay.
Verb
(en verb)- His unkindness may defeat my life, / But never taint my love.
- I cannot taint with fear.
- Meat soon taints in warm weather.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare with attaint.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Do not fear; I have / A staff to taint , and bravely.
- They tainted each other on the helms and passed by.
Etymology 3
Reportedly from the phrase “ your balls and 'tain't your ass”.Noun
(en noun)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 )
Re: My Wife's Raw Comments", in rec.sport.pro-wrestling, Usenet :
- Even her taint
's raw?
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)contaminate
English
Verb
(contaminat)- Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
- This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.
- Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
- I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .