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I’ve also found that it resists stains and cleans up easily, which is a major plus for road trips and winter camping.

Plus, the sudsing left stains on my lenses from the water I couldn’t shake off.

Soil stains hint that there may have been such structures inside and that people were living there, she said.

You wrote that it “left a stain on their reputations, their department and the country.”

They can sop up moisture and help tackle stains on other surfaces, including rugs and carpets.

As mentioned, Yahoo has a black stain on its collaboration and severe breach of privacy.

We ask our celebrities to pour their hearts out, and then chastise them if they stain our buttoned-up shirts.

While that is unlikely to happen, the very fact that it can is a stain on the American judicial system.

About “developers in bed with reviewers,” and the stain this leaves on the “integrity of games journalism.”

I put my hands behind my head, lay back and looked at a water stain on the ceiling.

Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.

Louis pressed his father's hand to his lips; that hand which was hardly washed from the stain of Wharton's blood!

There was still visible on it the stain where he had wiped his hand, and this stain seemed certainly blood.

He did not think of the matter again till just as he was getting into bed, when he noticed a red stain upon his handkerchief.

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On this page you'll find 168 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stain, such as: blemish, blotch, color, dye, smudge, and speck.

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

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