The difference between Poison and Taint
When used as nouns, poison means a substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism, whereas taint means a , or , especially in.
When used as verbs, poison means to use poison to kill or paralyse somebody, whereas taint means to or (something) with an external , either or .
check bellow for the other definitions of Poison and Taint
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Poison as a noun:
A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism.
Examples:
"We used a poison to kill the weeds."
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Poison as a noun:
Something that harms a person or thing.
Examples:
"Gossip is a malicious poison."
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Poison as a noun (informal):
A drink; liquor.
Examples:
"— What's your poison?"
"— I'll have a glass of whisky."
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Poison as a verb (transitive):
To use poison to kill or paralyse somebody
Examples:
"The assassin poisoned the king."
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Poison as a verb (transitive):
To pollute; to cause some part of the environment to become poisonous
Examples:
"That factory is poisoning the river."
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Poison as a verb (transitive):
To cause something to become much worse
Examples:
"Suspicion will poison their relationship."
"He poisoned the mood in the room with his non-stop criticism."
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Poison as a verb (transitive):
To cause someone to hate or to have unfair negative opinions
Examples:
"She's poisoned him against all his old friends."
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Taint as a noun:
A , or , especially in
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Taint as a noun:
A mark of , especially on one's ; blemish
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Taint as a noun (obsolete):
tincture; hue; colour
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Taint as a noun (obsolete):
infection; corruption; deprivation
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Taint as a verb (transitive):
To or (something) with an external , either or .
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Taint as a verb (transitive):
To (food) by .
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Taint as a verb (intransitive):
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
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Taint as a verb (intransitive):
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
Examples:
"Meat soon taints in warm weather."
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Taint as a verb (transitive, computing, programming):
To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
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Taint as a verb (transitive, AU, finance):
To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
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Taint as a noun:
A with a , which fails of its intended .
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Taint as a noun:
An done to a in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a or unscientific manner.
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Taint as a verb (transitive):
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
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Taint as a verb (transitive):
To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
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Taint as a verb (intransitive):
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
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Taint as a noun (slang):
The .