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Substantiivi

1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
2. (US, vulgar, slang) The perineum.
3. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
4. A tinge, trace or touch.
5. 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.
6. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
7. (obsolete) Tincture; hue; colour.
8. (obsolete) Infection; corruption; deprivation.
9. (programming) A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
2. (transitive) To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
3. (intransitive) To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
4. (transitive) To spoil (food) by contamination.
5. (intransitive) To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
6. (intransitive) To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
7. (transitive, computing, programming) To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
8. (transitive, Australia, finance) To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.