Scar

[Scar]

A scar is a place where a wound healed but is still visible, or if you're little, it's a mark where a boo boo was.

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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.

Noun
an indication of damage

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"


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.


Scar

Scar , n. [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. hearth, fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. Eschar.] 1. 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.
This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body.
2. (Bot.) 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.

Scar

Scar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring.] To mark with a scar or scars.
Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
His cheeks were deeply scarred.

Scar

Scar, v. i. To form a scar.

Scar

Scar, n. [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. ski'91r, Sw. sk'84r. Cf. Skerry.] An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. [Written also scaur.]
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

Scar

Scar, n. [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.] (Zo'94l.) A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Scarab, Scarabee

Scar"ab , Scar"a*bee , n. [L. scarabeus; cf. F. scarab'82e.] (Zo'94l.) Any one of numerous species of lamellicorn beetles of the genus Scarab'91us, or family Scarab'91id'91, especially the sacred, or Egyptian, species (Scarab'91us sacer, and S. Egyptiorum).

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.

To mark with a scar or scars.

To form a scar.

An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

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Usage Examples

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

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