(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.
Unmarked
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".
(2) To increase production of the highly detoxified Lys9Gly129 PT analog by B. pertussis, additional copies of the mutated tox operon were integrated into the bacterial chromosome at the tox or fha locus by unmarked allelic exchange.
(3) The clear, unmarked Sheridan PVC tracheal tube is not recommended for laser airway surgery.
(4) 23 min: Dani Alves sends in a cross which the unmarked Pedro Rodriguez tries to half-volley home from 14 yards.
(5) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
(6) The number of myocardial lymphocytes demonstrated by immunohistochemical staining correlated well with, but was consistently less than, the number obtained by quantitative light microscopic studies on unmarked samples.
(7) More Americans than Australians died during the raids, many in unmarked sea graves.
(8) Dakhil travels with two armed security guards in an unmarked, unarmoured car to avoid drawing attention.
(9) Olsson, totally unmarked, had the simple task of prodding over the line.
(10) Other secondary recipients repopulated by "unmarked" progenitor cells or by cryptic provirus-positive precursors present in the spleens of the same donor mice did not develop disease; thus cells expressing v-fms did not invariably have a proliferative advantage after transplantation.
(11) These artificial substrates, whose termini resemble those of linear, full-length Ty1 reverse transcripts, can be coincubated with VLPs (containing unmarked reverse transcripts), resulting in the very efficient integration of the artificial substrate.
(12) If Moyes felt reprieved when Andros Townsend cut inside and curled a late shot wide, his afternoon was ruined when Paddy McNair needlessly conceded a free-kick, taken near the corner flag by Lee Chung-yong and, deep into stoppage time, an unmarked Benteke rose imperiously to clinch it.
(13) Study of the barium suspension passage through the small intestine, as the authors consider, is indicated in unmarked clinical features of the disease, and as well in its short duration (less than 6 h) with the aim of establishing a degree of ileus (complete, or partial).
(14) After removing epoxy resin semithin sections were incubated with 7 lectins (WGA, RCA I, PNA, LCH, UEA, LPA) marked by horseradish peroxidase and 2 unmarked lectins (VAA, Con A).
(15) Past research has shown that unmarked concepts are processed more rapidly than marked ones.
(16) This permits comparison of the labeling characteristics of unmarked and colloidal gold-marked Fab fragments.
(17) Unmarked and on the end of a Messi cross from the left, Bojan heads wide from six yards with half the goal gaping.
(18) USA 2-0 Azerbaijan (Johansson) Beautiful corner curled in from Davis and an unmarked Johansson flicks his header perfectly into the top near corner!
(19) Shortly after 7am on Thursday an unmarked police car pulled up outside Jefferies's flat in the affluent Clifton area of Bristol and he was arrested.
(20) While local emergency services performed gruesome cleanup feats in difficult conditions, there was little coordination or oversight of the work and on occasions bodies and possessions were seen being thrown into unmarked vehicles.