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Synonyms for blemished

Grammar : Verb
Spell : blem-ish
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblɛm ɪʃ

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Définition of blemished

Origin :
  • early 14c., "to hurt, damage," from Old French blemiss- "to turn pale," extended stem of blemir, blesmir "to make pale; stain, discolor," also "to injure" (13c., Modern French blêmir), probably from Frankish *blesmjan "to cause to turn pale," or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *blas "shining, white," from PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)).
  • The order of appearance of senses in Middle English is "hurt, damage;" "impair morally, sully" (late 14c.); "mar, spoil, injure" (early 15c.); "to mar the beauty or soundness of" (mid-15c.). Related: Blemished; blemishing.
  • verb flaw, disfigure
Example sentences :
  • I didn't think, sir, you would have recommended my ladies a blemished horse like that.
  • Extract from : « Black Beauty » by Anna Sewell
  • Because Falsehood was blemished in having no feet, she was called mendacium or mendacity.
  • Extract from : « The Fables of Phdrus » by Phaedrus
  • Your service of God will no more be mixed and blemished with imperfections.
  • Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 2 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
  • There is the gross and the refined, the blemished and the perfect.
  • Extract from : « Prairie Gold » by Various
  • No one can be a priest who is maimed or blemished in any way.
  • Extract from : « Joel: A Boy of Galilee » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • Her parents were blemished with some of the frailties of that character.
  • Extract from : « Ormond, Volume I (of 3) » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • Not a curve that was blemished by an angle or ruffled by asperities.
  • Extract from : « Ormond, Volume II (of 3) » by Charles Brockden Brown
  • I pick by hand, and sort into three classes: large, medium, small and blemished.
  • Extract from : « The Apple » by Various
  • The blemished larv tell me of a paunch already or on the point of being invaded.
  • Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre
  • Is there not much that answers to the offering of the lame and the sick, the blemished and the ill-favored?
  • Extract from : « Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume II » by Charles Henry Mackintosh

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