scuffed

American  

[skuhft] / skʌft /

adjective

1. marred or scratched by scraping or hard use.

   He had on a worn-out old coat, workman's pants, and scuffed boots.

   Close to the trunk of the car he found scuffed tracks that looked to have been made by small, thin-soled shoes.

   I looked under the bed and pulled out a scuffed suitcase with frayed cardboard corners.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of scuff.

Other Word Forms

• unscuffed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of scuffed

scuff ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

The story was bizarre enough to become the subject of a segment on CBS’s “60 Minutes” in 1999, titled “The Scuffed Halls of Ivy.”

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015

Scuffed shoes seem to be the natural order of things when it comes to people who are about 1 year old.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2012