BLEMISH
Dictionary entry overview: What does blemish mean?
• BLEMISH (noun)
The noun BLEMISH has 1 sense:
1. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
Familiarity information: BLEMISH used as a noun is very rare.
• BLEMISH (verb)
The verb BLEMISH has 3 senses:
1. mar or spoil the appearance of
2. mar or impair with a flaw
3. add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
Familiarity information: BLEMISH used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• BLEMISH (noun)
Meaning:
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
blemish; mar; defect
Context example:
a facial blemish
Hypernyms ("blemish" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blemish"):
birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)
blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)
milium; whitehead (a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland)
verruca; wart ((pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus)
stigma (a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease)
blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot (a blemish made by dirt)
burn; burn mark (a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body))
mark; scar; scrape; scratch (an indication of damage)
mole (a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin)
dent; ding; gouge; nick (an impression in a surface (as made by a blow))
crack (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts)
check; chip (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something)
chatter mark (a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece)
• BLEMISH (verb)
Meaning:
Mar or spoil the appearance of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
blemish; deface; disfigure
Context examples:
scars defaced her cheeks / The vandals disfigured the statue
Hypernyms (to "blemish" is one way to...):
deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate (make imperfect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blemish"):
mangle; maul (injure badly by beating)
mark; pit; pock; scar (mark with a scar)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Mar or impair with a flaw
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
spot; blemish
Context example:
her face was blemished
Hypernyms (to "blemish" is one way to...):
begrime; bemire; colly; dirty; grime; soil (make soiled, filthy, or dirty)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
flaw; blemish
Hypernyms (to "blemish" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
