Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protruding isolated rock.
- noun A bare rocky place on a mountainside or other steep slope.
- noun A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.
- noun A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical.
- noun Botany A mark indicating a former attachment, as of a leaf to a stem.
- noun A mark, such as a dent, resulting from use or contact.
- intransitive verb To mark with a scar.
- intransitive verb To leave lasting signs of damage on.
- intransitive verb To form a scar.
- intransitive verb To become scarred.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
scare . - noun A naked, detached rock.
- noun A cliff; a precipitous bank; a bare and broken place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- noun The word enters into many place-names in Great Britain, as Scarborough, Scarcliff, etc.
- noun A scaroid fish. See
Scarus . - noun A manufacturers' name for lumps or cakes of imperfectly fused ferrous sulphid which form in the burning of iron pyrites in making sulphuric acid, due to an insufficient supply of air to the burners. The formation of scars involves waste of sulphur which fails to be fully burned off.
- noun A mark in the skin or flesh made by a wound, burn, or ulcer, and remaining after the wound, burn, or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix.
- noun Figuratively, any mark resulting from injury, material or moral.
- noun A spot worn by long use, as by the limpet.
- noun In botany, a mark on a stem or branch seen after the fall of a leaf, or on a seed after the separation of its stalk. See
hilum . - noun In conchology, an impression left by the insertion of a muscle; a ciborium; an eye.
- noun In entomology, a definite, often prominent, space on the anterior face of the mandibles of rhynchophorous beetles of the family Otiorhynchidæ.
- noun In founding, a weak or imperfect place in a casting, due to some fault in the metal.
- To mark with a scar or scars; hence, to wound or hurt.
- To become scarred; form a scar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form a scar.
- transitive verb To mark with a scar or scars.
- noun An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
- noun (Zoöl.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
- noun A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
- noun (Bot.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See
Illust. underAxillary .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cliff . - noun A
rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water. - noun A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a
wound . - verb To mark the skin permanently
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- verb mark with a scar
- noun an indication of damage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The lump was not big, but the scar is about 6 inches long!
John Brown – the author’s official site » Blog Archive » Please, Mr. Brown, I recommend you undress 2010
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The husband and father who wears a dueling scar is not to be trifled with by hapless wives or recalcitrant children.
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The scar from the war that streaked across his forehead was nearly white.
I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010
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When a young coeur is bruised too many times it becomes wrapped up in scar tissue and peony petals.
To the Boy Who Raped Me Kait Mauro 2010
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His scar is a constant reminder on how it is important to protect yourself from the sun.
Spring is a coming: Preparing for the new season | Northern Belle 2010
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The husband and father who wears a dueling scar is not to be trifled with by hapless wives or recalcitrant children.
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He had the ragged look she recognized as Vegas having run somebody down - shaggy dark hair hid his face, but his hands were callused, one thin scar creeping up the back of his hand toward his wrist.
Friday! ultra_lilac 2009
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The burn scar is brown is some places and more charcoal-colored in others depending on geological and vegetational factors.
Archive 2009-03-01 Bente Lilja Bye 2009
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The scar is relatively small and I have a stupidity award.
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Just a faintly purple line where the scar is forming.
Thankful Friday 2010
chained_bear commented on the word scar
"Scars, perhaps, were the primal tattoos, marks of distinction that showed you had been tried and had survived the test. And like tattoos, they also fade, though the one from my surgery last summer is still a fierce and deep purple."
—Dana Jennings, "Our Scars Tell the Stories of Our Lives," New York Times, July 20, 2009
July 23, 2009