Marring
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Marring is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
More Meanings
- Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
Example Sentences
[…]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?
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.
Word Forms
- marrings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include damaged, blemished, scarred, defaced, blemishment, mark.
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