blemish

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

manchar

mancha

defecto

estropear

tacha

afear

mácula

desfigurar

imperfección

maca

menoscabar

tara

acné

añadir una imperfección

lunar

marca

perjudicar

vicio

borrón

deformar

Sinónimos

defect

fault

stain

flaw

spot

blot

scar

taint

deficiency

smudge

deface

mar

disfigure

cicatrix

slur

injury

smear

scratch

mark

vice

wound

bruise

cut

sully

gash

imperfection

tarnish

speck

smirch

shortcoming

damage

disgrace

pimple

stigma

speckle

smut

mole

impurity

deformity

deform

blast

defile

spoil

blur

blame

blotch

dishonor

besmirch

disfigurement

dirt

Traducciones

Makel

ελάττωμα

défaut

bozmak

verunstalten

κηλίδα

imperfection

réfuter

abîmer

Schönheitsfehler

λεκές

ατέλεια

Pickel

λεκιάζω

entstellen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: blemisshen

Cognado con neerlandés: bles

Cognado con alemán: blass

Cognado con inglés antiguo: 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”).