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scarred
[skahrd]
adjective
having a scar left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
He is tall and well-built, with a badly scarred face where he was bitten by a shark.
experiencing the psychological aftereffects of suffering or trauma.
The main character endures childhood abuse and grows up to be a deeply scarred individual who thinks the whole world is against him.
(of a wound, burn, etc.) having formed a scar in healing.
As healing progresses, the patient must be weaned away from needing a gauze wrap on the closed, scarred wound.
blemished or marred as a result of damage or use.
Empty corrugated-iron buildings lie amidst a scarred landscape full of rubble.
They furnished their first apartment with a used desk, a badly scarred table, and two old chairs with rickety legs.
Botany., bearing a mark indicating a former point of attachment, as where a leaf has fallen off.
As the dieffenbachia ages, some of the lower leaves dry up and fall off, leaving a scarred stem that gradually lengthens.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of scar.
Other Word Forms
- unscarred adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Abandoned for years, it is scarred by soot from a 2014 fire that gutted parts of the structure.
She says offering Marven for adoption "scarred" her, but she "wanted a better life for him".
Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city's cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction.
The highly anticipated five-Test series gets under way on a fast, bouncy track at a sold-out Perth Stadium and with Ben Stokes's visitors insisting they are not scarred by past failures.
Two years before her death, Ladd was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a disease wherein “lung tissue becomes damaged and scarred,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
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