The meaning of STAIN is to suffuse with color. How to use stain in a sentence.

Stained things are dirtied or marked in some way. You should probably reserve your stained pants for painting your bedroom instead of wearing them to a fancy restaurant. Accidentally stained things are …

From a copy of "Decorative Patterns of the Ancient world," by Sir Flinders Petrie. [1] A stain is a discoloration that can be clearly distinguished from the surface, material, or medium it is found upon. …

Water and other liquids can stain unprotected wood surfaces. Lily pollen stains really badly. Red wine stains. The wood itself was light but I stained it darker. You can stain wood in different colours.

2 days ago · Adjective stained (comparative more stained, superlative most stained) having a stain Antonym: unstained coloured by adding a pigment

STAIN definition: a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed. See examples of stain used in a sentence.

Definition of stained adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Simple past tense and past participle of stain. Color stained his neck and spewed up into his face. My fingertips are still stained a bit blue. The cloak they spread under him was wet with blood which …

There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective stained, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

to mark or discolour with patches of something that dirties the dress was stained with coffee