MARRED

marred, scarred

(adjective) blemished by injury or rough wear; “the scarred piano bench”; “walls marred by graffiti”

MAR

mutilate, mar

(verb) destroy or injure severely; “mutilated bodies”

mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate

(verb) make imperfect; “nothing marred her beauty”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

marred (comparative more marred, superlative most marred)

(obsolete) Of a person, perplexed or troubled

(Yorkshire) Of a child, spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged

Verb

marred

simple past tense and past participle of mar

Source: Wiktionary


MAR

Mar, n.

Definition: A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]

Mar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (märd); p. pr. & vb. n. Marring.] Etym: [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian, OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend. Cf. Moor, v.]

1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton.

2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." Shak.

Mar, n.

Definition: A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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