All 4 Uses
taint
in
All the Pretty Horses
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- But it cannot be tainted, you see.†
Chpt 3 *tainted = spoiled or contaminated
- They talk about tainted money.†
Chpt 3
- He rode up buzzards out of a draw where they'd been feeding on a dead colt and he sat the horse and looked down at the poor form stretched in the tainted grass eyeless and naked.†
Chpt 4
- One does not like to entertain the notion of tainted blood.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(taint) to spoil something so it is not desirable -- as when bacteria contaminates a food; or as when a rumor makes people distrust a person
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, taint is used in a non-negative way to refer to a trace of something.