stain

stain is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
2. transitive verb. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the material itself; to tinge with a color or colors combining with, or penetrating, the substance; to dye; as, to stain wood with acids, colored washes, paint rubbed in, etc.; to stain glass.
3. transitive verb. To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
4. transitive verb. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
5. intransitive verb. To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
6. noun. A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
7. noun. A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
8. noun. Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
9. noun. Cause of reproach; shame.
10. noun. A tincture; a tinge.
11. noun. an act that brings discredit to the person who does it

    "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

    Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot

12. noun. a soiled or discolored appearance

    "the wine left a dark stain"

    Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration

13. noun. a symbol of disgrace or infamy--Genesis

    "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"

    Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma

14. noun. the state of being covered with unclean things

    Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil

15. noun. (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
16. verb. color for microscopic study

    "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"

17. verb. color with a liquid dye or tint

    "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"

    "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"

18. verb. produce or leave stains

    "Red wine stains the table cloth"

19. verb. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

    "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"

    "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"

    Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish

Synonyms

blot, smear, smirch, spot, discoloration, discolouration, brand, mark, stigma, dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, defile, maculate, sully, tarnish

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stain:

antis, saint, sanit, satin, tains, tians

Common word forms

stains, stained, stainer, stainful, staining, stainable, stainless

Words from these letters

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