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Scar
Definitions
- 1 A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- 2 A cliff or rock outcrop.
"O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / And thinner, clearer, farther going! / O sweet and far from cliff and scar / The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!"
- 3 A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
- 4 an indication of damage wordnet
- 5 A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience. broadly
"Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success."
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- 6 A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- 7 a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue wordnet
- 8 Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
"Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface."
- 9 A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- 1 To mark the skin permanently. transitive
"Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow."
- 2 mark with a scar wordnet
- 3 To form a scar. intransitive
"Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff."
- 4 To affect deeply in a traumatic manner. figuratively, transitive
"Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life."
Etymology
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”).
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”).
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry and scaur.
From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).
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