distain

Speech parts

1. distain - Noun

2. distain - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sully soil contrary breach contempt foul dirty stain disdain defiance contaminate contemptuous discolor blacken muck
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Antonyms

improve respect regard honor dust clean
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Derivatives

distained distaining

Examples

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. Jane Austen

Close letter words and terms

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