scar
Plural: scars
Noun
- a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- an indication of damage
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Verb
Verb Forms: scarred, scarring, scars
- To mark with a scar; to cause lasting damage.
- mark with a scar
- "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
- To mark the skin permanently.
- To form a scar.
- To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
Examples
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
- That unfortunate tile draw will forever SCAR his memory of the game.
Origin / 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 sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.
Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”).
Scrabble Score: 6
scar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary