as in to stain
to make dirty
weary soldiers with hands distained with blood
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distain
Verb
-
As both business owner and head baker — her black chef’s coat is usually powdered with flour, her hands stained with icing — Vee won’t have time this June to participate in the Chicago Pride Parade.—
Sophie Levenson,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025 -
The team that would replace us would be stained, football would be stained.—
Felipe Cardenas,
New York Times,
17 June 2025
Verb
-
And for nights when you can't be bothered to dirty a million dishes just to get dinner on the table, there's an air fryer from Ninja.—
Sarah Felbin,
SELF,
23 May 2025
-
Crème Brûlée Steve Granitz Crème brûlée is like butter blonde, but dirtied up a bit for a browned, warm tint.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
Verb
-
Four months later, the hills around his home are still blackened and toxic.—
Josh Rottenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
-
Some of the jewel beetle wings had their original green-yellow-red hues while others had blackened.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2025
Verb
-
In addition to the lack of air conditioning, authorities said Ward didn’t clean Douglas’s room or bed and left him soiled.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
-
George Kaplan, who was an executive assistant to Mr. Combs about a decade ago, testified on Wednesday about his typical duties, such as carrying Mr. Combs’s bags and running errands, as well as purchasing drugs for him twice and cleaning up hotel rooms soiled with baby oil after Mr. Combs’s stay.—
Julia Jacobs,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
Verb
-
No doubt, climate change threatens to muck it all up, disturbing patterns that have existed for centuries.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
28 Apr. 2025
-
Even though this team isn't good at shooting threes, their defense mucks everything up enough to win games.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Cite this Entry
“Distain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distain. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share