Blemish

Definition: Blemish

Blemish

Noun

1. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish".

Verb

1. Mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks".

2. Mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished".

3. Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "blemish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Blemish \Blem"ish\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Blemished; Blemishing.]. (references)

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Synonyms: Blemish

Amorphism

Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.

Blemish

Noun: blemish, disfigurement, deformity; adactylism; flaw, defect; (imperfection) ; injury; (deterioration); spots on the sun; eyesore.

Deterioration

Wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate, cripple, hough, hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp.

Imperfection

Fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw; (break); gap; twist; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat; blemish; weakness; half blood; shortcoming; drawback; seamy side.

Ugliness

Render ugly; Adjective: deface; disfigure, defigure; distort; blemish; (injure); soil; (render unclean).

Crosswords: Blemish

I can afford a blemish on my character, but not on my clothes (Laura; writing credit: Vera Caspary; Jay Dratler)

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Books

• Without Blemish; To-Day's Problem: To-Day's Problem (The Black Heritage Library Collection) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Blemish (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Business

Even a slight unevenness of color or other minor blemish can be a reason for products to be returned to the manufacturer by retailers. (references)

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Expressions using "blemish": type 1 blemish ♦ type 2 blemish ♦ type 5 blemish ♦ without blemish. Additional references.

Beginning with "blemish": blemish-free, blemish-prone.

Ending with "blemish": Anti-blemish.

Albanian

njollos (bespatter, blacken, blot, blur, cloud, defile, dye, imbrue, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain, sully), njolloj (blot, blur, smear, spot, stain, sully, thumb), njollë (blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, imputation, Mark, mote, nebula, patch, plash, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint), e metë (defect, deficit, demerit, disfigurement, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, handicap, limitations, shortcoming, weakness), cen (blot, defect, deficit, demerit, disablement, disfigurement, flaw, imperfection, malformation, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تراجع (back away, back down, back up, backwards, degradation, draw back, drawback, fall back, fall behind, give back, give ground, give the right of way, kick, lose ground, move back, palinode, recede, recess, recession, recoil, regress, regression, renege, retire, retract, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrogression, sell out, stand, take back, turn back, unsay, withdraw), ‏عيب (blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), ‏علة عيب (defect, deficiency, flaw), ‏خلل (acetify, defect, deficiency, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble), ‏رجف (quiver), ‏شوه (assassinate, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench), ‏شحب (be sickly, blanch, etiolation, fade, go white, pale, pall, turn pale, wan). (various references)

Bulgarian 

недостатък (debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, imperfection, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), повреждам (damage, derange, disturb, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate), петня (blaspheme, cast reflection on, denigrate, disfigure, libel, pollute, slur, smear, smirch, soil, speck, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, tarnish), дефект (defect, demerit, fault, imperfection, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Chinese 

玷 (disgrace, flaw in jade, to spy), 疵 (defect, flaw), 瑕 (flaw in jade), 伤疤 (Blemishes). (various references)

Czech

vada (altercation, defect, failing, fault, hole, imperfection, inadequacy, vice), poskvrna, porušit (break, disobey, disturb, infringe, upset, violate, vitiate), pokazit (damage, hurt, ruin, unsettle, vitiate), pošpinit (besmirch, defile, soil, spatter, stain, taint, tarnish, thumb), narušit (corrupt, dislocate, disrupt, erode, impair, spoil), kaz (defect, fault, flaw, hole, rot). (various references)

Danish

vaekstejendommelighed, uregelmaessighed, pletfejl, ikke kvalitetsnedsaettende fejl, forstyrrelsesprik, forstyrrelsesplet, fejl i træet (flaw). (various references)

Dutch

spikkel (dot, period, point, spot), onvolkomenheid (defect, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, inferiority), geen waarde verminderende verkleuring, gebrek (absence, damage, deficiency, lack, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Farsi 

نقص (Defect, Deficiency, Handicap, Incompetence), لکه دارکردن (Blame, Brand, Denigrate, Foul, Smear, Soil, Speck, Stain, Stigmatize, Sully, Taint, Tarnish), خسارت واردکردن , افترازدن (Calumniate, Libel), اسیب زدن , بدنام کردن (Calumniate, Defame, Denigrate, Lynch, Malign, Vilify). (various references)

Finnish

vika (defect, deficiency, fault, flaw), tahra (blot, daub, flaw, smear, spot, stain, taint), puun vika (defect in wood, flaw), merkityksetön vika, käyttökelpoisuutta alentamaton vika. (various references)

French

défaut. (various references)

German

beschädigen (bruise, chip, damage, deface, injure, knock about, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoil, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure), beeinträchtigen (affect, curb, damage, detract from, dislocate, distort, disturb, harm, impair, interfere with, reduce, restrict, spoil, to affect, vitiate, warp), verunstalten (deface, deform, disfigure, scar, to blemish, to deface, uglify), tadel (animadversion, animadversions, black mark, blame, censure, criticism, demerit, disapproval, impeachment, objurgation, observation, rebuke, remark, reprimand, reproach, reproof, taint), Störfleck, Schandfleck (blot, discredit, eyesore, smirch, ulcer), nicht herabsetzende Verfärbung, Mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want), makel (defect, scar, slur, smirch, stigma, taint), fleck (bit, blaze, blob, blot, blotch, blur, fleck, location, lump, Mark, patch, piece, place, smudge, speck, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, star), Fehler im Holz (flaw), fehler (aberration, absence, bug, defect, deficiency, demerits, error, failing, fault, flaw, flaws, lack, lapse, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), entstellen (contort, deface, deform, disfigure, distort, falsify, garble, pervert, to deface, to disfigure, to garble, torture, warp). (various references)

Greek 

κηλίδα (blot, blur, macula, moil, mottle, patch, slick, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, taint), ελάττωμα (defect, deficiency, failing, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming, vice), ατέλεια (defect, deficiency, fault, flaw, imperfection, imperfectness, incompleteness, shortcoming, sketchiness), ψεγάδι (fault, flaw). (various references)

Hebrew 

מום (defect, deformity, disability, fault, impediment, maim, mutilation), לקוי (defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), לקות (defect, eclipse), לפ�'ום (cut notch, impair, spoil), פ�'ם (blot, defect, fault, flaw, impair, imperfection, notch, shortcoming, weakness), �"ופי (fault, flaw, impurity, insult, scorn, slur, smirch, taint). (various references)

Hungarian

szégyenfolt (blot, blur, plague spot, slur, spot, stain), hiba (aberration, bloomer, blooper, blue, bobble, clinker, default, demerit, error, failing, failure, fault, flaw, flub-up, glitch, inaccuracy, lapse, malformation, mischief, mistake, shortcoming, trouble, wrong), fogyatékosság (fault, flaw). (various references)

Indonesian

conteng (stain), celekeh (soiled), cela (defect, disgrace, flaw, short coming). (various references)

Irish

ainimh. (various references)

Italian

difetto (bug, damage, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, desideratum, detriment, disadvantages, disservice, failure, fault, flaw, harm, lack, Miss, shortage, shortcoming, vice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

粗 (defect, flaw, weak point), 疵瑕 (defect, flaw), 瑕疵 (defect, flaw), 瑕 (defect, flaw, weak point). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きず (bruise, cut, defect, flaw, gash, hurt, injury, scar, scratch, weak point, wound), しか (current price, deer, defect, dentistry, flaw, furlough, historian, Japanesepoetry, leave of absence, market price, one's own house, price of paper, price of silk thread, private house, the teacher's home), かし (apparent death, asphyxiation, being granted, defect, evergreen oak, Fahrenheit, false tooth, filament, fish market, flaw, granting, imperial grant, lending, loan, lower extremities, noncommissioned officer, pastry, river bank, riverside, song lyrics, the legs, visibility, words of a song), あら (defect, flaw, weak point). (various references)

Manx

smearey (blur, smear, smudge, splotch, stain), lheamys (default, defect, deformity, different, fault, flaw, imperfection), cur lheamys er, cron (draw, frame, job lot, portion, scar, speck, spot, stain, stigma). (various references)

Norwegian

skjemme (coddle, pamper, pet), skavank. (various references)

Pig Latin

emishblay.(various references)

Portuguese

defeito (aberration, abuse, blister, blot, bug, error, failing, frailty, imperfection, malformation, mistake, shortcoming, taint, vice, weakness). (various references)

Romanian

stigmat (badge, brand, flaw, note, stigma), prihanã, patã (blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, fleck, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), pãta (attaint, cloud, foul, maculate, Mark, slop, smear, smirch, smut, soil, speckle, splash, splatter, spoil, spot, stain, sully), necinsti (disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, shame, violate), lipsã (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), greşealã (aberration, bloomer, blunder, defect, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, lapse, miscarriage, mistake, rub, shortcoming, sin, slip, trespass, wrong), defãima (asperse, belie, black, bring reproach upon, calumniate, cast a slur upon, defame, denigrate, depreciate, disparage, libel, put a slur upon, slander, slur, smear, spatter, traduce, vilify), cusur (defect, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, shortcoming, vice, weakness). (various references)

Russian 

недостаток (dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, failure, fault, flaw, lack, letdown, minus, objection, penury, privation, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vice, want), пятно (attaint, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, fleck, imputation, moil, patch, reflection, reflexion, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, spots of, stain, stigma, taint), пятнать пятно (smirch, splotch, stain), пятнать (speck, speckle, sully). (various references)

Scottish

toibheum (reproach, stain), smal (dust, snuff, speck, spot, stain), lochd (a fault, defect, evil, harm, mischief), gaoid (a blemish, defect), ailis (mimicing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvariti (adulterate, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), oštetiti (damage, harm, mar, scathe), nedostatak (defect, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), mana (defect, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, imperfection, manna, mar, shortcoming), ljaga (discredit, plague spot, smirch, stain, stigma, taint). (various references)

Spanish

defecto (batter, damage, default, defect, deficiency, failing, fault, hole, shortcoming). (various references)

Swedish

fläck (blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, fleck, flick, Mark, mottle, patch, slur, smear, smirch, speck, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, taint), fel (aberration, Amiss, corrigendum, defect, demerit, error, errors, failing, failure, fault, flaw, foul, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, out, shortcoming, trouble, vice, wrong). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้มีตำหนิ, ตำหนิ (censure, fault, hold against, lash). (various references)

Turkish

bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (attaint, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, fleck, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), kusur (blame, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, imperfection, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), karalamak (bedaub, besmear, besmirch, blacken, blot out, breathe upon, calumniate, chalk out, dash, dash down, dash off, denigrate, doodle, draw, line through, pollute, rule smth. out, scandalize, score out, scrabble, scratch, scribble, scribble down, smudge, smut, strike through), hata (balk, baulk, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), güzelliğini bozmak. (various references)

Turkmen 

menek (spot, stain). (various references)

Ukrainian

шрам (cicatrix, scar, seam, welt), вада (blur, defect, demerit, disfiguration, disfigurement, fault, shortcoming, weakness), недолік (defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, imperfection, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle), псувати (alloy, bedevil, blight, blur, break, corrupt, cripple, debase, deface, deform, degrade, deprave, destroy, deteriorate, discount, disfigure, do for, envenom, erode, flaw, make miserable, mess, mismanage, muddle, muff, perish, prejudice, punish, queer, spoil, vitiate, waste), плямувати (defile, smudge, speckle, spot, stain). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tật (malformation, vice), nhược điểm (defect, failing, frailty, shortcoming). (various references)

Welsh

breg (breach, faulty, fragile, guile), bai (blame, defect, fault, vice), nam (flaw, mark), mefl (blot, disgrace), anurddo (disfigure, mar, spoil), anafu (be hurt, maim), anaf (defect, wound). (various references)

confusio, labes labis, macula, maculae, maculam, maculis, maculo, mendum menda. (various references)

blemiss-. (various references)

masel. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "blemish": blemished, blemishes, blemishing. (additional references)

Words containing "blemish": unblemished. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blemish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belisha, Belmeis, Bilmarsh, Blameth, Blawith, blemesh, blemishs, Blenyth, blewish, flemmish, lemish, Slemish, ullinish. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: biles, heils, helms, limbs, limes, miles, shiel, slime, smile.

-3 letters: bels, bile, bise, elhi, elms, heil, helm, hems, hies, isle, leis, libs, lies, limb, lime, mels, mesh, mibs, mile, mils, mise, semi, shim, slim.

-4 letters: bel, bis, elm, els, ems, hem, hes, hie, him, his, ism, lei, lib, lie, lis, mel, mib, mil.

+1 letter: thimbles.

+2 letters: beamishly, bimethyls, blemished, blemishes, chimbleys, chimblies, embellish, whimbrels.

+3 letters: amphiboles, blemishing, blithesome, bolshevism.

+4 letters: abolishment, amphibolies, bimonthlies, blasphemies, blaspheming, bolshevisms, embellished, embellisher, embellishes, habiliments, hemoglobins, thimblefuls, thimblerigs, unblemished.

+5 letters: abolishments, amphibolites, biochemicals, blandishment, blimpishness, blithesomely, chamberlains, diminishable, embellishers, embellishing, imperishable, imperishably, phlebotomies, phlebotomist, stablishment, thimbleweeds.