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n. the state of being contaminated

v. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation"

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n. disgusting wickedness and immorality; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed"

stigma

n. a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease

shame, disgrace, ignominy

n. a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"

smear, cytologic smear, cytosmear

n. a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope

scratch

n. (golf) a handicap of zero strokes; "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"

stain, discoloration, discolouration

n. a soiled or discolored appearance; "the wine left a dark stain"

putrescence, putridness, rottenness, corruption

n. in a state of progressive putrefaction

damage

v. suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

discolor

v. cause to lose or change color; "The detergent discolored my shirts"

streak

v. move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"

streak, blotch, mottle

v. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

pollute, foul, contaminate

v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

stain

v. produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"

spot, fleck, blob, blot

v. make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"

discolor

v. lose color or turn colorless; "The painting discolored"

oxidize, oxidise, oxidate

v. add oxygen to or combine with oxygen

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purity, pureness

n. being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

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