Verb

(en verb)

To discolour something

to stain the hand with dye

armour stained with blood

To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation

* Milton

Of honour void, / Of innocence, of faith, of purity, / Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained .

To coat a surface with a stain

to stain wood with acids, coloured washes, paint rubbed in, etc.

the stained glass used for church windows

To treat a microscope specimen with a dye

To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

She stains the ripest virgins of her age.

* Spenser

that did all other beasts in beauty stain

Verb

(label) To lengthen by pulling.

(label) To lengthen when pulled.

* Boyle

The inner membrane because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.

(label) To pull tight.

To get more use than expected from a limited resource.

To make inaccurate by exaggeration.

(label) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned,

To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles

(label) To extend to a limit point

(label) To increase.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=Yakubu took advantage of John Ruddy's error to put the visitors back in front, with Chris Samba's header stretching their advantage.}}

To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.

a man apt to stretch in his report of facts

(label) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.

The ship stretched to the eastward.