TAINT
- to stain or blemish [v -ED, -ING, -S]
- to touch or affect slightly with something bad [v TAINTED, TAINTING, TAINTS]
- to affect with something bad; contaminate
- trace of something bad
- to contaminate morally corrupt scholarship tainted by envy
- affect with putrefaction spoil
- touch or affect slightly with something bad persons tainted with prejudice
- become weak
- become affected with putrefaction spoil