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adjective

Definition of stainednext
as in blackened
not clean always seen wearing stained clothes, which he apparently hoped would mark him as an antibourgeois bohemian

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verb

past tense of stain
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as in tainted
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable her poor choice of companions stained her reputation somewhat

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as in painted
to give color or a different color to stained the table to look like cherry

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as in dirtied
to make dirty oil stained his work pants

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