verb
- Color with a liquid dye or tint.
- usage: "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
- synonyms: stain
- Produce or leave stains.
- usage: "Red wine stains the table cloth"
- synonyms: stain
- Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.
- usage: "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- Color for microscopic study.
- usage: "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"
- synonyms: stain
adjective
- Marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter.
- usage: "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks"
- Having a coating of stain or varnish.
- synonyms: varnished
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