stain
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.
- 2.
A blemish on one's character or reputation.
- 3.
A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
- 4.
A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
- 5.
(heraldry) One of a number of non-standard tinctures used chiefly in post-medieval heraldry, especially tenné, murrey, or sanguine.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.
to stain the hand with dye
armour stained with blood
Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, defile, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle
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To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation
Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, blot, denigrate, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong
- 3.
To coat a surface with a stain
to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.
the stained glass used for church windows
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(intransitive)To become stained; to take a stain.
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(transitive)(transitive, cytology, histology) To treat (a microscopic specimen) with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features
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To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
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From Middle English steinen, steynen (to stain, colour, paint), of origin, from Old Norse steina (to stain, colour, paint), from steinn (stone, mineral blue, colour, stain), from ᛊᛏᚨᛁᚾᚨᛉ, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (stone), from Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂- (to stiffen). Cognate with stān. More at stone.