The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word TAINTING , but the solution may also be ROTTING which is one of the most recent solution (2010 in Wall Street Journal).
Turning bad crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAINTING | 33 % | 8 |
| ROTTING | 33 % | 7 |
| SOURING | 33 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Turning bad
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- deteriorating
- worsening
- declining
- decline
- die away
- flagging
- fall away
- die out
- fade away
- lounging
- peter
- dwindle
Crossword Answer definitions
TAINTING verb- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TAINTING
More clues leading to the result ROTTING
- Stinking up the place, say
- Going bad
- "Raving, ___, money-mad": B. R. Newton
- On the way to decay
- Going bad, as fruit
- Well past the freshness date, say
- Turning bad