Clear
Clear verb - To remove usually visible impurities from.
Usage example: cleared the car windows
Taint
Taint verb - To make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable.
Usage example: smog has long tainted the air of that city, making it difficult to breathe
Common collocations
| people | clear people | taint people |
| reputation | clear reputation | taint reputation |
| minds | clear minds | taint minds |
Both words in one sentence
- The Legacy DLC subverts this, as Janeka, a female Grey Warden, while rude, is coherent, answers all questions asked of her succinctly as has clear plans for her actions, as opposed to the male Larius, whose half-corrupted by a taint and can barely speak a straight sentence.
Source: Women Are Wiser -
The Song is supposedly the most beautiful music one could ever know, so beautiful that one Warden whose Taint had progressed far enough to hear the Song in clear detail couldn't stop gushing about how wonderful it was, despite knowing what being able to hear it meant.
Source: Enthralling Siren
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