Marred
[mɑ:d]
Definition
(adj.) blemished by injury or rough wear; 'the scarred piano bench'; 'walls marred by graffiti' .
Checker: Mario--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Mar
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Examples
- They were bound to each other by a love stronger than any impulses which could have marred it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Its success, however, was marred by the first railroad fatality, for it ran over and killed a man on this occasion. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It has been said of Earl Durham, who pacified Canada at this time and established the present system of government, that he made a country and marred a career. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every street in Horta is handsomely paved with the heavy Russ blocks, and the surface is neat and true as a floor--not marred by holes like Broadway. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Not the faintest suggestion of a ripple marred its shining surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is a world of precious relics, a wilderness of marred and mutilated gems. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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