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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
The actor’s face is scarred with blood, hinting at a backstory I don’t have time — or perhaps the inclination — to explore.
“I too am frustrated by what I feel are areas of incompleteness,” said Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, whose district was scarred by the Palisades fire.
It doesn't help that she's been scarred by her past experiences with a record label that, for almost a decade, pushed her into making generic dance records while refusing to release her debut album.
The National Gallery of Art also owns a print of an 1863 photo, “The Scourged Back,” which shows the heavily scarred back of an escaped slave.
On another, he bit her nose, leaving her permanently scarred.
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