Scar

Quick meaning: Scar is a noun meaning A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

Meaning

A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
2. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
3. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
4. (intransitive) To form a scar.
5. (transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
6. A cliff or rock outcrop.
7. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.

Example Sentences

Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.

And black skin scars badly. Whatʼs left behind stays pink and angry, always.

Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.

Word Forms

• scars
• scarring
• scarred

Synonyms for scar

Depending on context, synonyms include cicatrice, cicatrix, mark, scrape, scratch, pock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cicatrice, cicatrix, scratch, scrape, pock, pit.

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