scar
/skɑɹ/ verb C2- To mark the skin permanently.
- To form a scar.
- To affect deeply in a traumatic manner. · Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
He/she/it scars · Past scarred · Past participle scarred · -ing form scarring
Verb forms
- Base form
- scar
- He/she/it
- scars
- Past
- scarred
- Past participle
- scarred
- -ing form
- scarring
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“We had driven up in a dog-cart, and my client led me away at once, without our entering the house, to the scar on the lawn where the elm had stood.
The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.
As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
“The first time, he broke my arm; the second, he wounded me in the breast; and the third time, made this large wound.” The Englishman turned down his shirt-collar, and showed a scar, whose redness proved it to be a recent one.
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