[
US
/ˈskɑɹd/
]
[ UK /skˈɑːd/ ]
[ UK /skˈɑːd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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blemished by injury or rough wear
walls marred by graffiti
the scarred piano bench -
deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury
Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?
the fire left her arm badly scarred
a face scarred by anxiety
How To Use scarred In A Sentence
- But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
- A tumour had manifested itself. Fine fabric had been scarred.
- A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
- the fire left her arm badly scarred
- She has had three operations and been left heavily scarred. Times, Sunday Times
- In the scarred northern city of Mosul much of the battle damage is recent.
- Huge craters scarred the streets and Clifton airfield.
- His face was badly scarred by the fire.
- The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
- America, unscarred by war, became the world's grocery store.