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Hindi Word कलंक Meaning in English - Taint - कलंक अंग्रेज़ी में अर्थ

कलंक Meaning in English is Taint, which is also written as 'Kalaṃk' in Roman. Other Kalaṃk Meanings in English include Blemish, Blot, Contagion, Defect, Disgrace, Dishonor, Fault, Flaw, Infection, Pollution, Shame, Smear, Spot, Stain, Stigma and Black Mark etc.

Definitions of Taint

n. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

n. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.

n. Tincture; hue; color; tinge.

n. Infection; corruption; deprivation.

n. A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.

intransitive v. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

intransitive v. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.

intransitive v. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.

transitive v. To injure, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.

transitive v. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.

transitive v. To imbue or impregnate with something extraneous, especially with something odious, noxious, or poisonous; hence, to corrupt; to infect; to poison.

transitive v. Fig.: To stain; to sully; to tarnish.

transitive v. Aphetic form of attaint.

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How To Spell Taint [teynt]

Origin of Taint Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘convict, prove guilty’): partly from Old French teint ‘tinged’, based on Latin tingere ‘to dye, tinge’; partly a shortening of attaint.

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