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Stain   /steɪn/   Listen
Stain

noun
1.
A soiled or discolored appearance.  Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration.
2.
(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible.
3.
The state of being covered with unclean things.  Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil.
4.
A symbol of disgrace or infamy.  Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma.
5.
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it.  Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot.
verb
(past & past part. stained; pres. part. staining)
1.
Color with a liquid dye or tint.  "People knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
2.
Produce or leave stains.
3.
Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.  Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish.  "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
4.
Color for microscopic study.



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"Stain" Quotes from Famous Books



... and two or three other men, declared very positively that they had seen little Wings beating himself against the coal-box; and one of them pointed out to Mr. Parlin the blood-stain on the edge ...
— Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple • Sophie May
... was silence before the first chords rang softly through the room. Though it may have been that the absence of necessity to strive and stain her daintiness amidst the press was responsible for much, Hetty Torrance's voice had failed to win her fame; but she sang and played better than most well-trained amateurs. Thus there was no rustle of drapery or ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... fallacious under the Leads, where nothing is done after the natural order. I imagined the Inquisitors must have discovered my innocence and the wrong they had done me, and that they only kept me in prison for form's sake, and to protect their repute from the stain of committing injustice; hence I concluded that they would give me my freedom when they laid down their tyrannical authority. My mind was so composed and quiet that I felt as if I could forgive them, ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... apologists of "the sea-green incorruptible," it must be admitted, have not been very successful, as the sence of mankind revolts at indiscriminate murder, even when the murderer's hands have no other stain than that which comes from blood,—for that is a stain which will not "out"; not even printer's ink can erase or cover it; and the attorney of Arras must remain the Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones of history. Benedict ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 57, July, 1862 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various
... thither to Slavery by the Protector. My Friend being at that time about Twelve Years old, chose rather to share his Fathers Fate, and view the Western parts of the Worlds, than fall into the Hands of a Person who would stain the Beauty of his tender Mind, by giving him an unsuitable Education. After he had buried his Father in Virginia, he took the Opportunity of a French Vessel to pass over to Brest, and so to Paris, who by the Assistance ...
— Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) • Daniel Defoe


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