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  • past tense form of taint.
  • past participle of taint.
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tainted

[teyn-tid] / ˈteɪn tɪd /


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Shadow of War: A Tainted Anatomy is on BBC Radio 4 at 8pm on Tuesday 21st January and available on BBC Sounds.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

Brustein published his first book on Shakespeare, “The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time,” in 2009.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2023

“When polio vaccine backfired / Tainted batches killed 10 and paralyzed 164,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 2005.

From Slate • Sep. 28, 2023

Tainted water and soil and dirty indoor air put Chad, the Central African Republic and Niger as the three countries with the most pollution-related deaths, according to data adjusted for population.

From Reuters • May 17, 2022

"Tainted money" were the words the magazine used—wouldn't feeding hungry little children take the taint off the money and the people who gave it?

From Phyllis by Johnson, Percy D.




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