"stain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

stain verbo

stain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 10
stain one's cheeks • stain one's hands • stain clothing • stain glass • stain red • ...
stain + preposición
Kolokacji: 11
stained with • stained in • stained from • stained by • stain for • ...
stain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 19
stain black • stain yellow • stain blue • stain red • badly stained • ...
(1) black, badly, darkly, white
Kolokacji: 4
(3) permanently, indelibly
Kolokacji: 2
2. indelibly stained = w sposób trwały poplamiony indelibly stained
  • Unlike blackface characters, they are indelibly stained.
  • The book had dried out well, although one corner of its front cover was faintly but indelibly stained with the merchant's blood.
  • The Clinton Presidency has been indelibly stained by impeachment.
  • Their hands were indelibly stained with some of the foulest crimes ever recorded in history.
  • It was as though Murbella's original clarity had been stained indelibly and then that mark covered over and even this cover masked.
  • On the one hand a man hopelessly lost, a coward who shirks his responsibility as a man and an officer, indelibly stained.
  • The suit was indelibly stained in places, but it was still self-cleaning, to an extent, and was more or less intact.
  • No matter what happens, she said, Mr. Clinton's legacy "shall be indelibly stained."
  • Though recently washed and pressed with a heated stroking-iron, his shirt was indelibly stained to a dull reddish ochre colour.
  • I've never been able to go back to that book; it's indelibly stained, for me, with the moodiness and self-dramatization of my youth.
(4) heavily, slightly, lightly
Kolokacji: 3

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