Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
- 5intransitive verb
To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
- 6noun
A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
- 7noun
A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
- 8noun
Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
- 9noun
Cause of reproach; shame.
- 10noun
A tincture; a tinge.
- 11noun
an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
"he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- 12noun
a soiled or discolored appearance
"the wine left a dark stain"
Synonyms
- 13noun
a symbol of disgrace or infamy--Genesis
"And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"
- 14noun
the state of being covered with unclean things
- 15noun
(microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible
- 16verb
color for microscopic study
"The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"
- 17verb
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"
- 18verb
produce or leave stains
"Red wine stains the table cloth"
- 19verb
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"
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