Mar
[mɑː] or [mɑr]
Definition
(n.) A small lake. See Mere.
(v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
(v.) To spoil; to ruin.
(n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Injure, spoil, ruin, disfigure, hurt, damage, harm.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of Mars, denotes that your life will be made miserable and hardly worth living by the cruel treatment of friends. Enemies will endeavor to ruin you. If you feel yourself drawn up toward the planet, you will develop keen judgment and advance beyond your friends in learning and wealth.
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Examples
- I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A boon', a boon', quoth Earl' Mar-shal', And fell' on his bend'-ded knee', That what'-so-e'er' the queen' shall say', No harm' there-of' may be'. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Keimer wore his beard at full length, because somewhere in the Mosaic law it is said, _Thou shalt not mar the corners of thy beard_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- No other thing can scratch or mar the polished facets and sharp corners of the diamond. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Travel and experience mar the grandest pictures and rob us of the most cherished traditions of our boyhood. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We must mend it, lords and gentlemen and honourable boards, or in its own evil hour it will mar every one of us. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It may not be very civil, Edith, but if you meddle in it you will mar it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- 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.
- Never before had I seen such a thing upon Mars, and for the moment I was nonplussed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Evidently we were very far beneath the surface crust of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Omean lies perhaps two miles below the surface crust of Mars. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- You want a satellite, Mars and his satellite! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Beneath the brilliant light of Mars' two glorious moons the whole scene presented itself in vivid distinctness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It might as well be something about Mars or about some fanciful country unless it fructifies in the individual's own life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The medium of exchange upon Mars is not dissimilar from our own except that the coins are oval. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This marring of the peace of home, by long hours of discontent, was what Margaret was unprepared for. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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