mar
verb (used with object)
to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil.
marrer
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a word derived from
mar.
Example Sentences
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The E. G. You can purr 'em all down t' me—it don' marrer!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, January 18, 1890 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
"Then will you grind it into him, clean to the marrer, and will you send these letters on to Ruthie?"
From The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter
I have likewise been laying the foundation of some pretty large poetic works; how the superstructure will come on, I leave to that great maker and marrer of projects, time.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Now, Scraggsy here has been master so long that the juice of authority has sorter soaked into his marrer bones.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
But I tell you Zip’s a man, an’ a great big man to the marrer of his small backbone.
From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Ridgwell Cullum
