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blemishing

verb

present participle of blemish
1
as in marring
to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable a single indiscretion blemished the rabbi's reputation for years

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2
as in damaging
to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of a scratch blemished the finish on the car

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blemishing
  1. marring
  2. damaging
  3. tainting
  4. injuring
  5. spoiling
  6. crippling
  7. staining
  8. compromising
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  • To prevent a similar war from happening again, Menelaus scarred her face, permanently marring her famous beauty.
    — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
  • Lined with live oaks and old-fashioned, busy storefronts, this artsy town on the Gulf of Mexico has no commercial development marring its shoreline.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
Definition of marring
Verb
  • You can often get prequalified to get a sense of the rate and term a lender is likely to approve you for, without damaging your credit score.
    — Dan Avery,Brett Holzhauer, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Zelensky said that a passenger train was also struck in the Mykolaiv region on Wednesday, damaging a railway station and a diesel locomotive.
    — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of damaging
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  • Several homeowners near Meta’s massive Newton County data center have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech company and others of tainting their water and destroying their rural way of life.
    — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • For all intents and purposes, an unknown actor can wade unburdened into the depths of Bond, able to transform without a viewer’s prior expectation tainting the image of 007.
    — Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Definition of tainting
Verb
  • The pilots of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 were blamed for crashing into a seawall in 2013, sending their jet cartwheeling down a runway in San Francisco, killing three people and injuring 187 others.
    — Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026
  • The jet, traveling from San Juan, Puerto Rico, overshot the runway, killing five people and injuring another five.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of injuring
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  • To say more about director George Roy Hill’s remarkably gratifying thriller would risk spoiling it.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
  • CyberLeek is also threatening to post in-game footage spoiling the game’s story.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of spoiling
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  • And the high pay they’re being offered as a lure is crippling the economy.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Trump claims the United States has opened the strait to all commercial ships other than those from Iran, crippling Iran's economy because of its reliance on oil exports.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of crippling
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  • Foods like tomato sauce and chocolate can cause staining if they aren’t wiped up right away.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Her hobbies include quilting, gardening and refurbishing furniture with Bill, with Hiers often adding the finishing touches by staining and painting their projects.
    — Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of staining
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  • Through this, authorities have improved response times to sudden events such as blockages, signal failures or crowding without compromising live operations.
    — Miroslav Katsarov, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • On October 7, Hamas, a group that al-Qaeda regularly criticized for compromising on theological principles in the pursuit of its political agenda, launched a bloody terrorist attack on Israel, killing more than 1,100 people.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of compromising
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“Blemishing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blemishing. Accessed 18 Sep. 2026.

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