blemish

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. flaw, defect, imperfection; spot, taint, mark; smear, smudge. —v. disfigure, mar; bruise, rot; stain, spot; injure, hurt; sully, disgrace, tarnish. See uncleanness, ugliness, deterioration, disrepute.

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(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. flaw, defect, stain, spot, smudge, imperfection, fault, shortcoming, disfigurement, defacement, blot, blur, chip, taint, tarnish, smirch, stigma, brand, deformity, dent, daub, discoloration, mole, nevus, pock, pockmark, blister, birthmark, wart, scar, impurity, speck, speckle, maculation, bruise, freckle, pimple, cicatrix, patch, blotch, lump, nodule, lentigo, smutch, zit*, hickey*; see also lack 2 , pimple .

Ant. flawlessness, perfection*, purity.

See Synonym Study at defect .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

flaw, fault, mark, defect, stain, spot, blotch, mole, disfigurement, imperfection, deformity, freckle, speckle, birthmark.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) I verb To spoil the soundness or perfection of: damage, detract from, disserve, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, prejudice, tarnish, vitiate. See BETTER, HELP. II noun 1. Something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure: bug, defect, fault, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming. See BEAUTIFUL, BETTER, HELP. 2. A mark of discredit or disgrace: black eye, blot, onus, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish. Archaic: attaint. Idiom: a blot on (one's) escutcheon. See MARKS, RESPECT.