taint
/teɪnt/ verb C2- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction. · Meat soon taints in warm weather.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
He/she/it taints · Past tainted · Past participle tainted · -ing form tainting
Verb forms
- Base form
- taint
- He/she/it
- taints
- Past
- tainted
- Past participle
- tainted
- -ing form
- tainting
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