mar
/mɑɹ/ verb C2- To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
He/she/it mars · Past marred · Past participle marred · -ing form marring
Verb forms
- Base form
- mar
- He/she/it
- mars
- Past
- marred
- Past participle
- marred
- -ing form
- marring
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During the rest of that day there was no other adventure to mar the peace of their journey.
“Do you see,” said Caderousse, “all my happiness is marred by one thought?”
The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that’s the man!
She was a beautiful woman, tall, dark, and slender, some twenty years younger than her husband; a disparity which seemed in no wise to mar the contentment of their family life.
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