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stained

adjective as in colored

adjective as in soiled

Strongest match

adjective as in tinted

Strongest matches

Strong matches

adjective as in unsanitary

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It may be that some hagiographer yet to come will find the stained sheets of fact and memory amid his papers.

The carpet is stained from the door to the window with red wine.

“[M]any a headband was soon stained red,” noted a TIME cover story from 1964.

The freed hostages streamed into the airport, their white polo shirts and pleated dresses stained with blood.

The cars had plush green upholstery and stained-glass windows and were faster and cheaper than a horse-and-buggy.

The differential count is best made upon a film stained with Wright's, Jenner's, or Ehrlich's stain.

In the tear-stained story of humanity there has never been aught to surpass the thrilling record of Cawnpore.

Nuclei and certain other structures in the blood are stained by the basic dyes, and are hence called basophilic.

Certain other structures are stained only by combinations of the two, and are called neutrophilic.

When well stained, a delicate hyaline peripheral zone can be distinguished.

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On this page you'll find 237 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stained, such as: disheveled, run down, seedy, threadbare, untidy, and dilapidated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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