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The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'
Terence Fisher

Meaning of "tainted" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAINTED

tainted  [ˈteɪntɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAINTED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tainted is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TAINTED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tainted in the English dictionary

The definition of tainted in the dictionary is contaminated or infected. Other definition of tainted is tarnished.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAINTED


acquainted
əˈkweɪntɪd
anointed
əˈnɔɪntɪd
appointed
əˈpɔɪntɪd
disappointed
ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪntɪd
disjointed
dɪsˈdʒɔɪntɪd
hand-painted
ˈhændˌpeɪntɪd
hand-printed
ˈhændˌprɪntɪd
imprinted
ɪmˈprɪntɪd
jointed
ˈdʒɔɪntɪd
minted
ˈmɪntɪd
painted
ˈpeɪntɪd
pointed
ˈpɔɪntɪd
printed
ˈprɪntɪd
sainted
ˈseɪntɪd
screen-printed
ˈskriːnprɪntɪd
tinted
ˈtɪntɪd
unacquainted
ˌʌnəˈkweɪntɪd
unattainted
ˌʌnəˈteɪntɪd
unprinted
ʌnˈprɪntɪd
untainted
ʌnˈteɪntɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAINTED

tailspin
tailstock
tailwater
tailwind
Taimyr Peninsula
tain
Tainan
Taine
Taino
taint
taintless
taintlessly
tainture
taipan
Taipei
Taiping
Taiping Rebellion
taisch
Taisho
taivert

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAINTED

double-jointed
granted
lap-jointed
linted
loose-jointed
malimprinted
microprinted
mounted
newly minted
rose-tinted
self-appointed
take for granted
talented
unappointed
undinted
unpointed
unwanted
wanted
well-acquainted
well-appointed

Synonyms and antonyms of tainted in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TAINTED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tainted» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tainted

Translation of «tainted» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAINTED

Find out the translation of tainted to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tainted from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tainted» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

污点
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contaminada
570 millions of speakers

English

tainted
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दागी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الملوث
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

запятнан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contaminado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দূষিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

entachée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dicemari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verdorben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

汚れた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오염
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tainted
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hôi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கறைப்படுத்தின
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दूषित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kusurlu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contaminato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skażone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заплямований
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

contaminat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στιγματίστηκε
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

besmet
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fläckas
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skjemt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tainted

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAINTED»

The term «tainted» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.623 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAINTED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tainted

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10 QUOTES WITH «TAINTED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tainted.
1
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
2
Georges Bataille
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
3
Aloe Blacc
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
4
David Boreanaz
I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
5
Hannibal Buress
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
6
Anna Chlumsky
Show business got really tainted for me.
7
Herbert Croly
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
8
Diana DeGette
Individual companies now have the voluntary responsibility of recalling their own products. While many companies have acted properly and swiftly to recall contaminated goods, the delay between the identification of tainted foods and the company's decision to recall those foods leads to the needless sickness of too many Americans.
9
James Fallows
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.
10
Terence Fisher
The process is very gradual, you see. At first there's the tainted stage; they know what will eventually happen to them if they go on but they say, 'Oh God, don't do it to me do it again, please, please.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAINTED»

Discover the use of tainted in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tainted and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tainted
In a dazzling tour de force of suspenseful storytelling, first-time novelist Brooke Morgan ingeniously peels away layers of artifice and deception to reveal the fears and uncertainties that live in the hearts of us all.
Brooke Morgan, 2009
2
Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Fact In America
A "Wall Street Journal" editor and reporter exposes the self-interested conclusions and unreliable statistics of industry-sponsored studies that influence public policy
Cynthia Crossen, 1996
3
The Tainted Desert: Environmental Ruin in the American West
Tainted Desert maps the nuclear landscapes of the US inter-desert southwest, a land sacrificed to the Cold-War arms race and nuclear energy policy.
Valerie Kuletz, 1998
4
Tainted: A Dr. Zol Szabo Medical Mystery
Dr. Zol Szabo and infectious disease specialist Hamish Wakefield race against time to find the cause of a mysterious epidemic that may be linked to a contamination of the food supply.
Ross Pennie, 2009
5
Tainted Life
Marc Almond's story features a larger than life cast of characters. It recounts his "de rigeur" plunge into drink, drugs, and debauchery as well as being an intimate portrait of the star-making personalities of the 1980s.
Marc Almond, 2000
6
Tainted
Only the purest of warriors and guardians are allowed to remain in heaven to protect everything on Earth. So what would happen if an individual became tainted?
Matthew Bevan, 2013
7
The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion
For the first time, an accomplished scholar offers a painstakingly researched examination of the United States' involvement in deliberate disease spreading among native peoples in the military conquest of the West.
Barbara Alice Mann, 2009
8
Tainted Lives
Sarah Mullen is a beautiful child who at seven years old is put into care by her drug-addicted mother.
Mandasue Heller, 2009
9
Tainted Mountain
aNora Abbott needs to make enough snow to save her ski resort from the drought that is ravishing Northern Arizona, and her recent court victory should mean good times are ahead.
Shannon Baker, 2013
10
Tainted Roses
Margie Lanier, a divorced mother of three, believes she has found the love of her life, a romantic gentleman who sweeps her off of her feet as he brings her roses and gifts.
Margie Danielsen, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAINTED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tainted is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dozens Die in India After Drinking Tainted Liquor
NEW DELHI — Dozens of people in India have died after drinking toxic liquor in a Mumbai-area slum, the police said on Friday. Thirty-seven people had died as ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
2
Tainted synthetic marijuana sickens users in Connecticut
Medical Marijuana.jpg. Connecticut police say they are investigating a batch of tainted synthetic marijuana that has sent about a dozen people to the hospital. «Fox News, May 15»
3
$1.5M worth of drugs seized in 'Project Tainted' fentanyl bust
Vancouver police and the Burnaby and North Vancouver RCMP detachments launched the joint investigation, dubbed “Project Tainted,” in October 2014 ... «CTV News, Mar 15»
4
Settlement reached in Davie horse deaths caused by tainted feed
But a confidential settlement with the company that sold the tainted feed will compensate the owners for the dying horses and allow them to buy new horses, said ... «Sun Sentinel, Dec 14»
5
14 executives, staff charged in tainted drug case
Law enforcement agents swooped in during predawn raids Wednesday and arrested executives and former staffers of a Framingham compounding pharmacy ... «Boston Globe, Dec 14»
6
Doomed horses dying from tainted feed in final days - AOL.com
Lakeland, the company that sold the tainted feed to the Masterpiece Equestrian Center, has since recalled the product and doesn't believe other stables have ... «AOL News, Dec 14»
7
Peanut Mogul Found Guilty Of Selling Salmonella-Tainted Food
More than five years after hundreds of Americans got sick from eating salmonella-tainted peanut butter, the top executive in the company that owned the Georgia ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
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Pharmacist tied to outbreak a 'scapegoat,' lawyer says
A pharmacist from the Massachusetts company linked to tainted drugs that killed 64 people fears that federal prosecutors have chosen him to be the “scapegoat'' ... «Boston Globe, Sep 14»
9
Tainted oil sold on to 473 businesses
Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration said 933 restaurants, bakeries and food plants, including 397 in Taipei, had used tainted oil supplied by Chang Guann ... «Shanghai Daily, Sep 14»
10
Pharmacy supervisor arrested in tainted steroids case
At least 751 people came down with meningitis and other infections and 64 died after getting tainted steroid injections. They were produced by a Boston ... «CBS News, Sep 14»

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