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• v  color with a liquid dye or tint
• v  produce or leave stains
• v  make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
• v  color for microscopic study
• a  marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter
  a badly stained tablecloth
  tear-stained cheeks
• s  having a coating of stain or varnish

• As the stained-dress story was bouncing and morphing about, there were also reports of another Lewinsky dress.
• Last week a stanch Presbyterian displayed two stained glass windows, designed for the National Cathedral, and executed with the simple, wholehearted reverence of the Gothic 13th .
• In Renaissance stained glass, made by painters rather than glaziers, the design may be drawn as freely as the artist desires.

• stain
• tarnish
• maculate
• sully
• defile
• varnished

• unstained

News & Articles

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• Martin family remembered in stained glass
  Two magnificent stained glass windows in Morris Chapel at University of the Pacific bear the name of the family that owned The Record for generations.
  June 17, 2013 - The Stockton Record
• Vandal breaks 168-year-old stained glass window at 19th century church
  State police have been searching for a vandal who threw a large rock through an original stained-glass window at a 19th century church.
  June 17, 2013 - WTAE-TV Pittsburgh
• Stained glass windows at burned Denver church get artisan treatment
  Phil Watkins estimates it will take about four months of painstaking labor to restore the six historic stained glass windows damaged last month in the fire at the Church of the Ascension.
  June 16, 2013 - Denver Post

Quotes

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• John McCain in MSNBC
  We both recognize that though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still have the power to wound,...
• Tom Dart in Los Angeles Times
  Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said children "were playing on a swing set just 10 feet away from a vicious fighting dog and blood-stained floors. . . . To be engaged in this sort of activity is disturbing enough, but to take a chance with anybody's...
• Steny Hoyer in Reuters
  There is no doubt our international reputation has suffered and been stained as a result,Hoyer told colleagues.