Scar
[skɑː] or [skɑr]
Definition
(noun.) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue.
(verb.) mark with a scar; 'The skin disease scarred his face permanently'.
Typist: Rudy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.. under Axillary.
(v. t.) To mark with a scar or scars.
(v. i.) To form a scar.
(n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
(n.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cicatrix, cicatrice, seam.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement, mark, seam, spot, reproach
ANT:Obliteration, effacement
Typist: Robinson
Definition
material or moral: (bot.) a mark on a stem after the fall of a leaf: in shells an impression left by the insertion of a muscle: in founding an imperfect place in a casting: a disfigurement.—v.t. to mark with a scar.—v.i. to become scarred:—pr.p. scar′ring; pa.t. and pa.p. scarred.—adjs. Scar′less without scars: unwounded; Scarred.
a mass of calcareous rock crowded with marine fossils.
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Examples
- I thought her, then, still more colourless and thin than when I had seen her last; the flashing eyes still brighter, and the scar still plainer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was a very tall gaunt captain of artillery with a red scar along his jaw. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was taller than I and his face was very thin under the shadow of his cap-visor and the scar was new and shiny. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- George drew off his glove, and showed a newly-healed scar in his hand. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I could not help glancing at the scar with a painful interest when we went in to tea. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The scar made by the hammer was, as usual in this excited state of her features, strongly marked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She is in a garden; and near her stands a sharp, dark, withered woman, with a white scar on her lip. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Cocoanuts, as most of us know, have a thick, hard shell, with three black scars at one end. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He then bared his legs and arms, and they were literally pitted with scars, due to the use of hypodermic syringes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That sort of regard, which he had proffered to her for so many faithful years, can't be flung down and shattered and mended so as to show no scars. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To Tarzan they stand out boldly against all the myriad other scars and bruises and signs upon the leafy way. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- To blow the bridge is nothing, Golz had said, the lamplight on his scarred, shaved head, pointing with a pencil on the big map. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was a huge fellow, terribly scarred about the face and chest, and with one broken tusk and a missing ear. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I learned in a moment that my scarred face was all unchanged to him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What simplicity, the scarred-faced brother, who was called Andreu Nin, said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The last wrist was much disfigured,--deeply scarred and scarred across and across. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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