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Stained vs Blemished - What's the difference?

stained | blemished |

As adjectives the difference between stained and blemished

is that stained is having a stain while blemished is having blemishes; flawed.

As verbs the difference between stained and blemished

is that stained is (stain) while blemished is (blemish).

stained

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having a stain
  • coloured by adding a pigment
  • Derived terms

    * stained glass

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stain)
  • Anagrams

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    blemished

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blemish)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having blemishes; flawed.
  • * 2001 , Robert Weissberg, Chapter 18: Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons'', Stuart S. Nagel (editor), ''Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation , page 111,
  • Stated sharply, today?s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays.
  • * 2008 , Ritchie Devon Watson, Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War , page 65,
  • One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel?s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection.”
  • * 2010 , Holly S. Ruddock, Life in Your Losses: Transformation Through Trials , page 186,
  • The most blemished' life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the ' blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him.