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stainverb to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirableher poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat blemish, darken, mar, poison, spoil, taint, tarnish, touch, vitiate begrime, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blur, cloud, dirty, discolor, pollute, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, soil, sully, tarabase, cheapen, debase, degrade, demean, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, foul, lower, shame, sinkbastardize, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, pervert, subvertcolor, distort, twist cleanse, purifydignify, elevate, ennoble, enshrine, glorify, hallow, magnify, uplift to give color or a different color tostained the table to look like cherry bepaint(archaic), color, dye, paint, pigment, tincture, tinge, tint brighten, lightendarken, embrown, tone (down)checker, dapple, daub, fleck, marble, mottle, pattern, polychrome, speck, speckle, streak, striate, stripe, variegate decolorize blanch, bleach, whiten to make dirtyoil stained his work pants befoul, begrime, bemire, besmirch, blacken, daub, dirty, distain(archaic), foul, gaum(dialect), grime, mire, muck, muddy, smirch, smudge, soil, sully contaminate, defile, pollute, taintdiscolorconfuse, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, disorder, draggle, jumble, mess, muddlecolly(chiefly British dialect), crock(dialect) clean, cleanse decontaminate, purge, purifydisinfect, sanitizebrush, dry-clean, dust, launder, mop, rinse, scour, scrub, sweep, wash, wipebrighten, deodorize, freshen, renew, spruce (up)straighten (up), tidy (up) stainnouna mark of guilt or disgracethe stain of this cowardly act would haunt him for the rest of his career blot, brand, onus, slur, smirch, smudge, spot, stigma, taint black eye, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, guilt, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, reproach, shamecorruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquity, licentiousness, sin, unscrupulousness, vice award, credit, honorchasteness, chastity, modesty, purity, stainlessnessgood, righthonesty, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulousness, uprightnessgoodness, righteousness, virtuousnessfame, glory, renown, repute a substance used to color other materialsapplied several coats of stain to the wood color, colorant, coloring, dye, dyestuff, pigment tint, tonercast, hue, shade, tinge in the 14th century |