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Distain   Listen
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Distain  v. t.  (past & past part. distained; pres. part. distaining)  To tinge with a different color from the natural or proper one; to stain; to discolor; to sully; to tarnish; to defile; used chiefly in poetry. "Distained with dirt and blood." "(She) hath... distained her honorable blood." "The worthiness of praise distains his worth."






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"Distain" Quotes from Famous Books



... To traverse, in his anguish cried: "Hard, hard to pass, my Queen, this sea Of sorrow raging over me: No Rama near to soothe mine eye, Plunged in its lowest deeps I lie. Sorrow for Rama swells the tide, And Sita's absence makes it wide: My tears its foamy flood distain, Made billowy by my sighs of pain: My cries its roar, the arms I throw About me are the fish below, Kaikeyi is the fire that feeds Beneath: my hair the tangled weeds: Its source the tears for Rama shed: The hump-back's words its monsters dread: The boon I gave the ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI



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