To harm the good reputation of a person; to cause an idea or piece of evidence to seem false or unreliable.
A degree of dishonour or disesteem; ill repute; reproach.
A person or thing that causes harm to a reputation, as of a person, family, or institution.
The state of being discredited or disbelieved.
Discrediting or disbelieving.
To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
To spoil (food) by contamination.
To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
A tinge, trace or touch.
A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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.
The perineum.