marring

Definitions

The act of spoiling the appearance, quality, or perfection of something.

Causing physical damage or disfigurement to an object or surface.

Examples

The graffiti was marring the beauty of the historic stone wall.

A single scratch was marring the otherwise perfect finish of the mahogany table.

Synonyms

spoiling damaging defacing ruining impairing disfiguring blemishing

Antonyms

improving enhancing perfecting repairing restoring beautifying adorning