1. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
   "a facial blemish";
   - defect, mar

1. Add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
   "The scratch blemished the surface of the table";
   - flaw
    
2. Mar or impair with a flaw
   "her face was blemished";
   - spot
    
3. Mar or spoil the appearance of
   "scars blemished her cheeks";
   - deface, disfigure

Derived forms: blemished, blemishes, blemishing

Type of: appearance, begrime, bemire [archaic], colly [archaic], damage, deflower, dirty, grime, impair, mar, pollute, soil, spoil, visual aspect, vitiate

Encyclopedia: Blemish