Definitions for stain

• Definition
• Anagrams (86)

stain stain

Spelling: [steyn]

IPA: /steɪn/

Stain is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in stain (ainst).

Definitions for stain

noun

1. a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
2. a natural spot or patch of color different from that of the basic color, as on the body of an animal.
3. a cause of reproach; stigma; blemish:
4. coloration produced by a dye that penetrates a substance, as wood.
5. a dye made into a solution for coloring woods, textiles, etc.
6. a reagent or dye used in treating a specimen for microscopic examination.

verb (used with object)

1. to discolor with spots or streaks of foreign matter.
2. to bring reproach or dishonor upon; blemish.
3. to sully with guilt or infamy; corrupt.
4. to color or dye (wood, cloth, etc.) by any of various processes that change or react with the substance chemically.
5. to color with something that penetrates the substance.
6. to treat (a microscopic specimen) with some reagent or dye in order to color the whole or parts and so give distinctness, contrast of tissues, etc.

verb (used without object)

1. to produce a stain.
2. to become stained; take a stain:

Origin of stain

1350-1400; Middle English steynen Old Norse steina to paint; in some senses aphetic form of distain

Examples for stain

She is right that, for some, the stain of humiliation can indeed be irrevocable.

We ask our celebrities to pour their hearts out, and then chastise them if they stain our buttoned-up shirts.

"It would be better not to stain our hands with the creature's blood," he said.

A stain on the name of Huron can only be hid by blood that comes from the veins of an Indian.

About “developers in bed with reviewers,” and the stain this leaves on the “integrity of games journalism.”

Nay, fear no trick; like you I remember my soul, and do not stain my hands with blood.

Hot water makes the proteins in the blood set and that makes the stain stick around longer.

While that is unlikely to happen, the very fact that it can is a stain on the American judicial system.

There was no stain of savagery upon the delight we had in coming to this spot.

Bitterly he recalled the stain upon his family in generations gone by.