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A blemish is a small flaw. If you borrow your brother's brand new bicycle, you'd better be careful — what might seem like the tiniest blemish to you might be a horribly ruined paint job to him.

The classic example of a blemish is a pimple or other mark on your skin, but you can call any small defect a blemish — like a worm hole in an apple or a scrape on the side of your car. A flaw or fault in your personality or morals can also be called a blemish. You might say that the one time your dog accidentally nipped you is the only blemish on his reputation as a sweet, gentle pet.

DEFINITIONS OF: blemish

n a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

“a facial blemish”

Synonyms:: defect, mar

Types:: show 25 types...; hide 25 types...; birthmark, nevus
a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth; chatter mark
a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece; check, chip
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something; crack
a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; dent, ding, gouge, nick
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow); mole
a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin; mark, scar, scrape, scratch
an indication of damage; burn, burn mark
a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body); blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot
a blemish made by dirt; stigma
a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease; verruca, wart
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus; milium, whitehead
a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland; blackhead, comedo
a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin; craze
a fine crack in a glaze or other surface; dig
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); cigarette burn
a burn mark left by a smoldering cigarette; blotch, splodge, splotch
an irregularly shaped spot; fingermark, fingerprint
a smudge made by a (dirty) finger; inkblot
a blot made with ink; nevus flammeus, port-wine stain
a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple; hemangioma simplex, strawberry, strawberry mark
a soft red birthmark; common wart
a benign growth (often with a rough surface); condyloma acuminatum, genital wart, venereal wart, verruca acuminata
a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus; juvenile wart
a small benign growth on the faces of hands of children; plantar wart
a wart occurring on the sole of the foot

Type of:: appearance, visual aspect
outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

v mar or spoil the appearance of

Synonyms:: deface, disfigure

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; mangle, maul
injure badly by beating; mark, pit, pock, scar
mark with a scar; pockmark
mark with or as if with pockmarks; cicatrise, cicatrize
form a scar, after an injury

Type of:: deflower, impair, mar, spoil, vitiate
make imperfect

v mar or impair with a flaw

“her face was blemished”

Synonyms:: spot

Type of:: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
make soiled, filthy, or dirty

v add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective

Synonyms:: flaw

Type of:: damage
inflict damage upon

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