Distained vs Distrained - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between distained and distrained

is that distained is past tense of distain while distrained is past tense of distrain.

is stained, discoloured, tarnished.

(head)

(rare) (distain)

(en adjective)

(rare) stained, discoloured, tarnished

:"The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained ." (Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll and Hyde ).

(head)

(distrain)

(en verb)

(label) To squeeze, press, embrace; to constrain, oppress.

*, VII:

*:But when he heard her answeres loth, he knew / Some secret sorrow did her heart distraine .

* 1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xii:

*:Thus spake the Prince, and gently 'gan distrain / Now him, now her, between his friendly arms.

To force (someone) to do something by seizing their property.

To seize somebody's property in place of, or to force, payment of a debt.

(label) To pull off, tear apart.

*, II.xii:

*:For that same net so cunningly was wound, / That neither guile, nor force might it distraine .

* distress

* distrainable * distrainee * distrainer * distrainment * distrainor * distraint

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