Mar

/mɑː(ɹ)/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
2. A blemish.
3. Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).
4. (obsolete) Alternative form of mayor and mair.

Example Sentences

[…] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:

Prospero: […]huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.

Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.

Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.

[…] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.

The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.

[page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.

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• mars
• marring
• marred
• marre

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