taint vs smut

taint and smut both are nouns.

taint and smut both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
taint	Yes	No	Yes	No
smut	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, smut is a hyponym of taint; that is, smut is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than taint:

taint: contaminate with a disease or microorganism
smut: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

Other hyponyms of taint include superinfect.

taint (noun)	smut (noun)
the state of being contaminated	creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
	an offensive or indecent word or phrase
	any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
	destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
	a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink

taint (verb)	smut (verb)
contaminate with a disease or microorganism	affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon	stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
	become affected with smut
	make obscene

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