stain

"A cover-up by the very institutions that are supposed to protect and to serve. It is nothing less than a stain of modern history of this country."

Her burned bureau and the black soot staining the wall reignited her past trauma.

The shore on this section of the northwest coast has been transformed by the flood water which now stains the beach.

All Muslim children in New York, Mr. Mamdani asserted, are “marked as the other” and made to feel “they carry a stain that can never quite be cleaned.”

A woman screamed as she hunched over the body of one of the victims, who were laid out in a line, covered in make-shift shrouds, some stained with blood.