Stain
To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
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.
To spot with guilt or infamy; to bring reproach on; to blot; to soil; to tarnish.
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
To give or receive a stain; to grow dim.
A discoloration by foreign matter; a spot; as, a stain on a garment or cloth.
A natural spot of a color different from the gound.
Taint of guilt; tarnish; disgrace; reproach.
Cause of reproach; shame.
A tincture; a tinge.
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Stain Quotations
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
Sophocles
But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
John Gay
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
Ernst Mach
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames
I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.
Lindsay Lohan
After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Bob Woodward
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.
Matt Stone
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
William Throsby Bridges
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
Boomer Esiason
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Aurelius Augustine
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected.
Mike Ferguson
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Stain Translations
stain in Dutch is bezoedelen, smetten, bekladden
stain in French is salir, souiller
stain in German is beflecken, Fleck
stain in Italian is macchia, insudiciare, imbrattare
stain in Latin is macula, inficio infeci infectum, labes labis
stain in Portuguese is mancha
stain in Spanish is enfangar, mancillar, mancilla
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