taint

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

taint [taint taints tainted tainting] verb, noun BrE [teɪnt] NAmE [teɪnt]
verb often passive ~ sth (with sth) (formal)
to damage or spoil the quality of sth or the opinion that people have of sb/sth
•The administration was tainted with scandal.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘convict, prove guilty’): partly from Old French teint ‘tinged’, based on Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’; partly a shortening of attaint.

Example Bank:
•The courts were irredeemably tainted by past association with the military.
•politicians who had been tainted with scandal
Derived Word: ↑tainted
 
noun usually singular
the effect of sth bad or unpleasant that spoils the quality of sb/sth
•to be free from the taint of corruption

Word Origin:
Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘convict, prove guilty’): partly from Old French teint ‘tinged’, based on Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’; partly a shortening of attaint.

Example Bank:
•trying to save his son from the taint of prison

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  contamination, infect, defile, sully, corrupt, cloud