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- verb transitive To
mar about or all over;injure seriously.
Etymologies
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From be- + mar.
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These images have a special name, _bemar boo_, which means "head of a corpse."
The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897
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