stain
/steɪn/ verb B2- To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance. · to stain the hand with dye· armour stained with blood
- To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
- To coat a surface with a stain · to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
- To become stained; to take a stain.
- To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
- To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
He/she/it stains · Past stained · Past participle stained · -ing form staining
Verb forms
- Base form
- stain
- He/she/it
- stains
- Past
- stained
- Past participle
- stained
- -ing form
- staining
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You must yourself have remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were.
Just beyond were two ancient stone pillars, weather-stained and lichen-blotched, bearing upon their summits a shapeless something which had once been the rampant lion of Capus of Birlstone.
But there was no stain.”
Curious, because, so far as one can trace any footmark in this mud-stained corner, one would say it was a more shapely sole.
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