(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.
Tache
Definition:
(n.) Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
(n.) A spot, stain, or blemish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tache cérébrale, not previously described in the diagnosis of RSD, is a helpful sign of vasomotor dysfunction.
(2) For the mesh-base bracket in tension and shear, Bond-Eze, Adaptic, and Solo-Tach were the most retentive materials when used with the 60-mesh base, and Genie was the least retentive.
(3) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
(4) The most frequent symptoms found were: fever 100%, "tache noire" 87%, and a maculopapular rash 81%.
(5) Intoxication of rats by 0,0-dimethyl-0-2,2-dichlorovinylphosphate (DDVPh) leads to marked biochemical changes of transcriptionally active (TACh) and repressed (RCh) liver chromatin fractions.
(6) A comparison with the Nuva system was made and a modification was described for a useful combination technique, namely, Enamel Bond-Nuva-Tach, which takes advantage of certain attributes of each.
(7) Besides the classical clinical triad of the disease (fever, rash and lesion at the site of tick bite, 'tache noire'), these patients presented purpuric rash and hypoalbuminemia, previously identified in severe forms of the disease.
(8) In rats anaesthetized with barbiturate nearly all the tach responses showed a slower onset and prolonged action.
(9) Both groups showed similar reductions in AP and cardiac output (CO); however, stroke volume (SV) was reduced to a greater extent (P less than 0.029) in the TACH group.
(10) Frozen sections of biopsy specimens of the initial lesion (tache noire) taken on the admission day were processed by a fluorescent conjugate reactive against Rickettsia conorii.
(11) Atropine eliminated or reversed the bradycardia in the BRAD group and propranolol blocked the tachycardia in the TACH group.
(12) The tache noire offers an excellent, accessible model for the study of the human-rickettsia interaction, including the pathogenic mechanisms leading to necrosis and the immune mechanisms resulting in killing the rickettsiae.
(13) Immunofluorescent Rickettsia conorii were demonstrated in 14 of 17 taches noires.
(14) The role of milky spots (taches laiteuses) in oncogenesis by asbestos and virus, especially in the induction of mesothelioma, is discussed.
(15) But even that association backfired: whenever the media ran a negative story about Dov Charney, former chief executive of American Apparel, they used an image of Charney with his tache – this despite the fact that his dates back to 2004 and he only had it for less than nine months.
(16) Prospective investigation of cutaneous lesions of 24 Sicilian patients revealed that 17 were taches noires from patients with a documented diagnosis of boutonneuse fever.
(17) A dolf Hitler was, of course, guilty of many crimes, but it's tempting to think that what annoyed Charlie Chaplin the most was his appropriation of his trademark 'tache.
(18) All patients presented fever with a generalised maculopapular rash, and the tache noire at the site of the tick bite.
(19) Clinical diagnosis is generally based upon the presence of a febrile eruption with or without the typical tache noire.
(20) The tache noire at the site of the tick bite was seen in 166 cases (73%).