Synonyms of the word

stain

• n. A discoloured spot or area.
• n. A blemish on one's character or reputation.
• n. A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.
• n. A reagent or dye used to stain microscope specimens so as to make some structures visible.
• v. To discolour something.
• v. To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation.
• v. To coat a surface with a stain.
• v. (cytology) To treat a microscope specimen with a dye, especially one that dyes specific features.
• v. To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

appearance

• n. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
• n. A thing seen; a phenomenon; an apparition.
• n. Personal presence; look; aspect; mien.
• n. Apparent likeness; external show; how something appears to others.
• n. (philosophy, theology) That which is not substance, essence, hypostasis; the outward reality as opposed…
• n. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before…
• n. (law) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court…
• n. (medicine) Chiefly used by nurses: the act of defecation by a patient.

blob

• n. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance;…
• n. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas…
• n. (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
• n. A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
• v. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
• n. Alternative spelling of BLOB.

blot

• n. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
• n. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
• n. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
• n. (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
• v. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
• v. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
• v. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
• v. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
• v. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
• v. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

brand

• n. (obsolete, rare) A conflagration; a flame.
• n. (archaic or poetic) A piece of burning wood or peat, also a glowing cinder.
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A torch used for signaling.
• n. (archaic) A sword.
• n. A mark of ownership made by burning, e.g. on cattle, or to classify the contents of a cask.
• n. A branding iron.
• n. A name, symbol, logo, or other item used to distinguish a product or service, or its provider.
• n. A specific product, service, or provider so distinguished.
• n. Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style, manner.
• n. The reputation among some population of an organization, of the products sold under a particular brand…
• n. Any minute fungus producing a burnt appearance in plants.
• v. (transitive) To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to…
• v. (transitive) To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership.
• v. (transitive) To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses.
• v. (transitive) To stigmatize, label (someone).
• v. (transitive, marketing) To associate a product or service with a trademark or other name and related images.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

defile

• v. (transitive) to make impure; to make dirty.
• n. A narrow way or passage, e.g. between mountains.
• n. A single file, such as of soldiers.
• n. The act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To march in a single file.

dirt

• n. Soil or earth.
• n. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
• n. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip.
• n. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
• n. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
• v. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty.

dirtiness

• n. The state or quality of being dirty.

discoloration

• n. The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.
• n. A discolored spot; a stain.

discolouration

• n. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of discoloration.

dye

• n. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
• v. (transitive) to colour with dye.
• n. Alternative spelling of die.

error

• n. (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• n. (countable) A mistake; an accidental wrong action or a false statement not made deliberately.
• n. (computing, countable) A failure to complete a task, usually involving a premature termination.
• n. (statistics, countable) The difference between a measured or calculated value and a true one.
• n. (baseball, countable) A play which is scored as having been made incorrectly.
• n. (appellate law, uncountable) One or more mistakes in a trial that could be grounds for review of the judgement.
• n. Any alteration in the DNA chemical structure occurring during DNA replication, recombination or repairing.
• v. (computing) To function improperly due to an error, especially accompanied by error message.
• v. (telecommunications) To show or contain an error or fault.
• v. (nonstandard) To err.

fault

• n. A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
• n. A mistake or error.
• n. A weakness of character; a failing.
• n. A minor offense.
• n. Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
• n. (seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
• n. (mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
• n. (tennis) An illegal serve.
• n. (electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) want; lack.
• n. (hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
• v. (transitive) To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
• v. (intransitive, geology) To fracture.
• v. (intransitive) To commit a mistake or error.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To undergo a page fault.

filth

• n. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
• n. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
• n. (Britain, pejorative, slang, with definite article) The police.
• n. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

grease

• n. Animal fat in a melted or soft state.
• n. (extension) Any oily or fatty matter.
• n. Shorn but not yet cleansed wool.
• n. Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis.
• v. (transitive) To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bribe.
• v. (transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill, murder.
• v. (obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
• v. To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease.

grime

• n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
• n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
• v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

grunge

• n. (informal) Dirt or filth, especially when difficult to clean.
• n. (informal) The state of being filthy; grubbiness.
• n. (music) A subgenre of alternative rock, originating from Seattle, Washington, which melds punk and metal.

maculate

• v. To spot; to stain; to blur.
• adj. Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
• adj. Defiled; impure.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

mistake

• n. An error; a blunder.
• n. (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in…
• v. (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing for another, or someone for someone else.
• v. (intransitive) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

smear

• v. (transitive) To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.
• v. (transitive) To have a substance smeared on (a surface).
• v. (transitive) To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false…
• v. (intransitive) To become spread by smearing.
• v. (climbing) To climb without using footholds, using the friction from the shoe to stay on the wall.
• n. A mark made by smearing.
• n. (medicine) A Pap smear.
• n. A false attack.
• n. (climbing) A maneuver in which the shoe is placed onto the holdless rock, and the friction from the shoe…
• n. (music) A rough glissando in jazz music.

smirch

• n. Dirt, or a stain.
• n. (of a reputation) Stain.
• v. To dirty; to make dirty.

soil

• n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
• n. Country or territory.
• n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
• n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
• n. Dung; compost; manure.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
• v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
• v. To make invalid, to ruin.
• v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
• n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
• n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
• v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

stigma

• n. A mark of infamy or disgrace.
• n. A scar or birthmark.
• n. (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
• n. A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).

sully

• v. (transitive) to soil or stain; to dirty.
• v. (transitive) to damage or corrupt.
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled or tarnished.

symbol

• n. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
• n. Any object, typically material, which is meant to represent another (usually abstract) even if there is…
• n. (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context;…
• n. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
• n. Visible traces or impressions, made using a writing device or tool, that are connected together and/or…
• n. (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
• n. That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
• n. Share; allotment.
• v. To symbolize.

tarnish

• n. Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
• v. (intransitive) To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
• v. (transitive) To soil, sully, damage or compromise.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To lose its lustre or attraction; to become dull.

uncleanness

• n. (uncountable) The state of being unclean.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being unclean.