(v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
(v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
(n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most hemangiomas are small, harmless birthmarks that appear soon after birth, proliferate for 8 to 18 months, and then slowly regress over the next 5 to 8 years, leaving normal or slightly blemished skin.
(2) At the same time, it can also be used to eliminate dark circles around the eyes, blend in skin grafts, and mask unsightly blemishes.
(3) Gerrard got on from the bench, but is not deemed ready for an international comeback and Jagielka blemished an otherwise solid shift by conceding the penalty.
(4) Although Speed had presided over five victories and five defeats in his 10 matches in charge of the principality, there were plenty of encouraging signs in Speed's stewardship, not least that four of the wins came in the past five games, with an unlucky 1-0 defeat by England at Wembley the only blemish.
(5) Frost, wind, rain and drought can discolour and blemish produce but there is no loss of nutrients.
(6) The run of unpredictable weather this season has left farmers and growers with bumper crops of "ugly" fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(7) By applying the cryoprobe to the lid margin and conjunctival surface instead of to the skin it was possible to limit the degree of depigmentation in these highly pigmented lids, and only one patient showed a mild cosmetic blemish.
(8) Unsightly - and sometimes alarming - as these blemishes are, they must not distract from the reality that the House will do something historic if it listens to the advice of Barack Obama and passes legislation that remains more ambitious than anything he promised on the campaign trail.
(9) When I ask both brothers about the incontrovertible blemishes on the last government's record, the policy of locking up children at Yarl's Wood, say, or the cavernous gap between executive reward and the minimum wage, they offer vague mea culpas.
(10) In recent years, various immigration reform measures have sought to screen out “undesirables” with blemished records , ignoring the fact that immigrants are often disproportionately targeted by racial profiling , unable to afford decent legal counsel and, in some cases, denied due process in a criminal justice system that heightens penalties for non-citizens .
(11) Slovakia were already in the lead when Fabio Cannavaro, the Italy captain who went through the entire 2006 World Cup without a single disciplinary blemish, blatantly blocked Juraj Kucka with his shoulder and smiled as he picked up the caution.
(12) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
(13) The driest March in 59 years , followed by the wettest June and autumn storms and flooding have reduced British fruit and vegetable harvests by more than 25% and left supermarkets unable to source their regular shaped, blemish-free produce.
(14) It served as a microcosm of a grey Wearside day about to be blemished by Brown's dismissal.
(15) Eleven months after being sacked by Newcastle - the sole blemish on his managerial CV - Allardyce, who has signed a three-year deal, is back in management, although not perhaps at the club he was expected to join.
(16) "The unpredictable weather this season, has left growers with bumper crops of ugly-looking fruit and vegetables with reported increases in blemishes and scarring, as well as shortages due to later crops.
(17) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
(18) A major advantage of this method lies in the fact that it causes the patient no discomfort and leaves his skin without blemish.
(19) Although cosmetic procedures to remove blemishes were unnecessary, it was "odd" that hip and knee replacements had been placed in the same category.
(20) The only blemish to Messi’s superb showing was a missed penalty in the first half.
Maculate
Definition:
(v.) To spot; to stain; to blur.
(a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of lesions were observed: red plaques, pityriasis versicolor (PV)-like macules and plane warts.
(2) The case also showed characteristic palmar melanotic macules.
(3) We report the clinical features, electrophysiologic findings, and dapsone and isoniazid excretion studies in three young people who ingested excessive amounts (2-4 times the prescribed dose) of dapsone for hypopigmented macules and who developed, subacutely, progressive motor neuropathy a few months later.
(4) Nodular lesions were found in three patients, who did not have macules.
(5) A 44-year-old woman was diagnosed as having unilateral multiple progradient pigmented macules and papules of the upper extremity and adjacent part of the back.
(6) The lesions developed as solitary, slowly extending, erythematous macules and plaques, usually occurring on the extremities or the shoulders in adolescents or adults.
(7) An asymptomatic macule or patch may be the first recognizable feature.
(8) We report a case of a 10-month-old male infant with GM1 type 1 gangliosidosis who also had hyperpigmented macules and patches.
(9) In this group, flat melanotic macules around the eyes were located on the opposite parts of the upper and lower eyelids.
(10) Hair cell polarization patterns were investigated on the sensory macule of the sacculus and lagena of the lake whitefish.
(11) Histological examination using serial sections were performed on 47 cases and showed evidence of dermal melanocytosis in 40 cases (85%) consisting of 33 (70%) without clinically detectable macules and 7 (15%) with obvious pigmented macules.
(12) In some HIV-infected patients the cause of the macules might relate to the administration of zidovudine and antifungal or antibacterial drugs.
(13) The skin lesions that are often seen are hypopigmented circular macules, measuring approximately 0.5 cm in diameter.
(14) This disease, which affects children and teenagers, males as well as females, is characterized by pigmented macules 5-25 mm in diameter, affecting the neck, the trunk and the limbs.
(15) We found that the population and structure of melanocytes differ greatly depending on the coloration of the café-au-lait macules.
(16) Generalized discrete hypopigmented macules forming a camouflage pattern appeared on the skin of a man.
(17) A hypopigmented macule on her face along with neuroimaging studies suggested an inflammatory process.
(18) Photoactivated psoralens were studied in sixty cases of tuberculoid leprosy for the repigmentation of hypopigmented macules.
(19) This article describes the light and electron microscopic studies from a macule and the surrounding lightly hyperpigmented skin of a patient with the Cronkhite-Canada syndrome.
(20) Pigmented macules and plaques in the oral cavity, representing the radial growth phase of tumors, often go unrecognized for months or years before tumor invasion.