0 past simple and past participle of blemish
1 to spoil something:
This latest revelation has seriously blemished the governor's reputation.
And it is the organ that takes slightly blemished compositional material further.
Here, too, was untimely sickness and death, a once-handsome face lined and blemished by the struggle with the disease bilharzia.
It is with genuine regret that that record has now been blemished.
If we allow a substantial reduction in farming in these areas, the natural beauty will not bloom but will be blemished.
Such action gained a high place in the list of unconstitutional disgraces that have blemished parliamentary history.
My party's record is deeply blemished and not good enough.
An endorsed licence signifies to them a blemished record, and can never, in the eyes of good motorists, really be obliterated.
Nevertheless, we feel obliged to say that it is blemished by an element of distorted reasoning.
