The Clue
Maculate (7 letter answer)
The Answer
STAINED
Tags
Notes
The answer STAINED is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blemished
___ glass
Soiled
Spotted
Tainted
Tarnished
Kind of glass
Not clean
Like cathedral glass
Like chapel glass
Like many aprons
Like some glass
Like cathedral window glass
Like many lab slides
Like panes in rose windows
Like some glass or wood
Like some teeth and glass
Like St. Peter's glass
Definition
STAIN as a verb:
1. color with a liquid dye or tint; "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
2. produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"
3. (tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile) = make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
4. color for microscopic study; "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"
STAINED as an adjective:
1. marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter; "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks"
2. (stained, varnished) = having a coating of stain or varnish
3. (besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished) = especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"