Usually means: Contaminated or corrupted by impurities.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word tainted:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. tainted: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tainted: Merriam-Webster
  3. tainted: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tainted: Vocabulary.com
  5. Tainted, tainted: Wordnik
  6. tainted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tainted: Wiktionary
  8. tainted: Dictionary.com
  9. tainted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Tainted (film), Tainted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Tainted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. tainted: Rhymezone
  13. Tainted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. tainted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. tainted: FreeDictionary.org
  16. tainted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tainted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tainted: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tainted: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tainted: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tainted: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See taint as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Corrupted or filled with imperfections.
adjective:  (computer security, of data) Originating from an untrusted source.

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