mar
verb (used with object)
to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil.
have marred
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present perfectof mar.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Authorities are deeply aware of the risk of crowd crushes, which have marred similar events in the past, with TV broadcasting guidelines on how to stay safe.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
But retractions and allegations of scientific misconduct have marred the credibility of those findings.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
While some novel element of tragedy may yet be discovered in the particulars of the 12 dead at Churchill Downs, there's no mystery in the near-identical racehorse deaths that have marred American tracks for years.
From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2023
The revelations and multiple probes into his campaign have marred what the new House majority described as a story from an openly gay GOP candidate.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
For said he, you are called Elmar, but you may be better called marelm, for you have marred all the elms in Fulham: having cut them all down.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
