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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



... I don't mean to cry over my spilt milk. I only wish the fellow joy of all he had time to take. Anything fresh up-stain ...
— A Thief in the Night • E. W. Hornung
... under the plea of his imitation of nature—a plea, too, urged in ignorance of nature, for nature does actually endeavour—if such a word as endeavour maybe used where all is done without effort—to subdue the rawness of every colour, and even to stain the white-wash we put upon her works, and covers the lightest rocks ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... impartial paramartha, thus addressed the king with all his followers. Then King Bimbisara filled with joy, removing from himself defilement, gained religious sight, a hundred thousand spirits also, hearing the words of the immortal law, shook off and lost the stain ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... may be sure that long before Jesus knew how and why he differed from his fellows he felt more or less clearly that they were not like him. The resulting sense of isolation was a school for self-mastery, lest isolation foster any such pride or unloveliness as that with which later legend dared to stain the picture of the Lord's youth. Four brothers of Jesus are named by Mark (vi. 3),—James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon,—the gospel adds also that he had sisters living at a later time in Nazareth. They were all subject with him to the same home influences, and apparently were ...
— The Life of Jesus of Nazareth • Rush Rhees
... driven from us and his home like a thrall caught in theft because a traitor and a false woman have put him to shame?" he said. "I say that I ask Athalbrand's blood to wash away that stain, not his gold, and that if need be I will seek it alone and die upon his spears. Also I say that if Olaf, my brother, turns his back upon this ...
— The Wanderer's Necklace • H. Rider Haggard


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