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Definition of distained in English English dictionary
- stained, discoloured, tarnished
The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde).
- Simple past tense and past participle of distain
- distain
- To stain, discolour or tarnish
- distain
- {v} to stain, tinge, blot, defame, defile
- distain
- To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; used chiefly in poetry