blemish
Other forms: blemishes; blemished; blemishing
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.
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a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)“a facial blemish”types:chatter marka mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiececracka blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the partsmolea small congenital pigmented spot on the skinstigmaa skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some diseasecrazea fine crack in a glaze or other surfacediga small gouge (as in the cover of a book)cigarette burna burn mark left by a smoldering cigaretteinkblota blot made with inkcommon warta benign growth (often with a rough surface)condyloma acuminatum, genital wart, venereal wart, verruca acuminataa small benign wart on or around the genitals and anusjuvenile warta small benign growth on the faces of hands of childrenplantar warta wart occurring on the sole of the foottype of:
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mar or spoil the appearance of
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mar or impair with a flaw
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add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
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