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marred

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mar  (mär)
tr.v. marred, mar·ring, mars
1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
n.
A disfiguring mark; a blemish.
[Middle English merren, from Old English mierran, merran, to impede.]
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Adj.1.marred - blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano bench"; "walls marred by graffiti"
scarred
blemished - marred by imperfections
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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Our beautiful October was marred by one day of black tragedy--the day Paddy died.
The Golden Road by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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