TAINT
/teΙͺnt/
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Scrabble
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WWF
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NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/teΙͺnt/
noun
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- Tincture; hue; colour
- Infection; corruption; deprivation
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
verb
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.“Meat soon taints in warm weather.”
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
Source: Wiktionary
Hooks
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