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  • English Word Taint Definition To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison; as, putrid substance taint the air.
  • English Word Taint Definition Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.
  • English Word Taint Definition To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
  • English Word Taint Definition To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.
  • English Word Taint Definition Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
  • English Word Taint Definition Infection; corruption; deprivation.
  • English Word Taint Definition A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
  • English Word Tainted Definition of Taint
  • English Word Tainting Definition of Taint
  • English Word Taintless Definition Free from taint or infection; pure.
  • English Word Taintlessly Definition In a taintless manner.
  • English Word Tainture Definition Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot.
  • English Word Taintworm Definition A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
  • English Word Taira Definition Same as Tayra.
  • English Word Tairn Definition See Tarn.
  • English Word Tait Definition A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.
  • English Word Tajacu Definition Alt. of Tajassu
  • English Word Tajassu Definition The common, or collared, peccary.
  • English Word Take Definition Taken.
  • English Word Take Definition In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey.
  • English Word Take Definition To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like.
  • English Word Take Definition To gain or secure the interest or affection of; to captivate; to engage; to interest; to charm.
  • English Word Take Definition To make selection of; to choose; also, to turn to; to have recourse to; as, to take the road to the right.
  • English Word Take Definition To employ; to use; to occupy; hence, to demand; to require; as, it takes so much cloth to make a coat.
  • English Word Take Definition To form a likeness of; to copy; to delineate; to picture; as, to take picture of a person.
  • English Word Take Definition To draw; to deduce; to derive.
  • English Word Take Definition To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in general senses, limited by a following complement, in many idiomatic phrases; as, to take a resolution; I take the liberty to say.
  • English Word Take Definition To lead; to conduct; as, to take a child to church.
  • English Word Take Definition To carry; to convey; to deliver to another; to hand over; as, he took the book to the bindery.
  • English Word Take Definition To remove; to withdraw; to deduct; -- with from; as, to take the breath from one; to take two from four.