1. Marked, dyed or discoloured with foreign matter
   "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks"
    
2. Having a coating of stain or varnish
   "The stained wood floor gleamed in the sunlight";
   - varnished

1. Colour with a liquid dye or tint
   "Stain this table a beautiful walnut colour"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
    
2. Produce or leave stains
   "Red wine stains the table cloth"
    
3. Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
   "The silver was stained by the long exposure to the air";
   - tarnish, maculate [literary], sully, defile, soil
    
4. Colour for microscopic study
   "The laboratory worker stained the specimen";
   - dye
    
5. (of someone's image or good reputation) damage, place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
   "the scandal staind his good reputation";
   - defile, sully, taint, cloud, tarnish, soil

See also: painted

Type of: alter, blob, blot, change, deflower, dye, fleck, impair, mar, modify, pollute, spoil, spot, vitiate

Antonym: unstained

Encyclopedia: Stained