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scar

Pronunciation: /skɑɹ/

The English word “scar” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
  2. A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
  3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
  4. A cliff or rock outcrop.
  5. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
  6. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
  7. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

verb

  1. To mark the skin permanently.
  2. To form a scar.
  3. To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

Etymology

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English…

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