blemish

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
2. A moral defect; a character flaw.

Verb

1. (transitive) To spoil the appearance of.
2. (transitive) To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

Sinònims

defect

fault

stain

flaw

spot

blot

scar

deficiency

taint

smudge

mar

disfigure

deface

mark

slur

smear

cicatrix

injury

vice

scratch

gash

tarnish

imperfection

cut

wound

bruise

sully

disgrace

smirch

stigma

pimple

shortcoming

damage

speck

impurity

speckle

mole

smut

zit

disfigurement

weak point

blotch

blame

soil

moil

blight

dishonor

blur

defile

besmirch

shame

deformity

spoil

dirt

ruin

blast

deform

macula

trace

track

trail

uglify

uncleanness

undo

vestige

wallop

wart

wicked

wreck

black stain

discolorise

discolorize

discolourise

do for

louse up

shake down

tache

bad quality

be stained

measles

punctum

bad point

cat-face

surface defect

crizzling

surface flaw

bad mark

surface blemish

bedaub

bemire

besmear

blister

censure

clew

complaint

corrupt

darken

daub

decimate

defacement

deflower

degrade

destroy

devastate

dim

discoloration

discolouration

discrepancy

dish

error

evil

failing

filth

fleck

foul up

hurt

ignominy

imbrue

impair

imperfectness

imprint

incompleteness

infamy

infract

kill

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lack

lapse

maculation

macule

mangle

objection

patch

pollute

print

reproach

rust

scent

shadow

sketchiness

slot

splotch

spoor

spottiness

swelling

tincture

Traduccions

Makel

manchar

defecto

mancha

abîmer

défaut

estropear

réfuter

imperfection

Schönheitsfehler

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: blemisshen

Cognat amb neerlandès: bles

Cognat amb alemany: blass

Cognat amb anglès antic: āblered

In summary

From Middle English blemisshen, blemissen, from Old French blemiss-, stem of Old French blemir, blesmir (“make pale, injure, wound, bruise”) (French blêmir), from Old Frankish *blesmijan, *blasmijan (“to make pale”), from Old Frankish *blasmī (“pale”), from Proto-Germanic *blasaz (“white, pale”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bles (“white spot”), German blass (“pale”), Old English āblered (“bare, uncovered, bald, shaven”).