scar

scar ¹  (skär)

n.

1. A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.

2. A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical: nightmares, anxiety, and other enduring scars of wartime experiences.

3. Botany A mark indicating a former attachment, as of a leaf to a stem.

4. A mark, such as a dent, resulting from use or contact.

v. scarred, scar·ring, scars

v.tr.

1. To mark with a scar.

2. To leave lasting signs of damage on: a wretched childhood that scarred his psyche.

v.intr.

1. To form a scar: The pustule healed and scarred.

2. To become scarred: delicate skin that scars easily.

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[Middle English, alteration of escare, from Old French, scab, from Late Latin eschara, from Greek eskhara, hearth, scab caused by burning.]

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scar ¹

Noun

1. a mark left on the skin following the healing of a wound

2. a permanent effect on a person's character resulting from emotional distress

3. a mark on a plant where a leaf was formerly attached

4. a mark of damage

Verb

[scarring, scarred]

1. to mark or become marked with a scar

2. to permanently effect or be permanently affected by mental trauma: their divorce will scar those kids for life [Greek eskhara scab]

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scar ²

Noun

a bare craggy rock formation [Old Norse sker low reef]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	scar - a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue cicatrice, cicatrix symptom - (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease callus - bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone cheloid, keloid - raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair pockmark - a scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive disease sword-cut - a scar from a cut made by a sword vaccination - the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine
	2.	scar - an indication of damage scrape, scratch, mark blemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"
Verb	1.	scar - mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" pock, pit, mark nock, score, mark - make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it" blemish, deface, disfigure - mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue" pockmark - mark with or as if with pockmarks; "Her face was pockmarked by the disease" cicatrise, cicatrize - form a scar, after an injury; "the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon"

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scar

noun 1. mark, injury, wound, trauma Pathology blemish, cicatrix

noun 2. trauma, suffering, pain, strain, torture, disturbance, anguish

verb 3. mark, disfigure, damage, brand, mar, mutilate, maim, blemish, deface, traumatize, disfeature

Translations

scar [skɑː] n → cicatriz f

vt → marcar con una cicatriz

vi → cicatrizarse

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scar [skɑːʳ] n → cicatrice f

vt → laisser une cicatrice or une marque à

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scar [skɑː] n → Narbe f (fig); Wunde f

vt → eine Narbe hinterlassen auf +dat (fig); zeichnen

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scar [skɑːʳ] n → cicatrice f

vt → sfregiare