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Marring

noun, verb

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Noun

1
Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
"Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail."

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling. form-of, gerund, participle, present
"[…]Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit? From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England, From Lisbon, Barbary, and India? And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch Of merchant-marring rocks?"

Etymology

From mar + -ing.

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