A discoloured spot or area. / A blemish on one's character or reputation. / A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

(transitive) To discolour. / To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation / To coat a surface with a stain / (intransitive) To become stained; to take a stain.

having a stain / coloured by adding a pigment

simple past tense and past participle of stain

present participle of stain

plural of stain

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stain

plural of staining, gerund of stain.

A town on the Thames in Spelthorne borough, Surrey, England, historically in Middlesex. Officially Staines-upon-Thames, but this name is generally ignored. / A habitational surname from Old English.

Obsolete spelling of stain