scar
[noun]
Synonyms:
- mark, blemish, injury, wound
[verb]
Synonyms:
- mark, damage, disfigure

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Related Words: blemish, defect, flaw, blister, pockmark, scab, disfigurement, cut, score, scratch, disfigure, mar, damage, deface

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English Thesaurus: blemish, mole, freckles, birthmark, bruise, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. scar¹ /skɑː $ skɑːr/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: escare, from Late Latin eschara, from Greek]

1. MARK ON SKIN a permanent mark that is left on your skin after you have had a cut or wound:
He had a long, curved scar on his right cheek.
a deep cut that could leave a permanent scar

2. FEELING a feeling of fear or sadness that remains with you for a long time after an unpleasant experience:
Her mental scars will take time to heal.
The war has left a deep scar on this community.

3. DAMAGED AREA a place where the land or a building was damaged in the past
scar of
The landscape still bears the scars of the war.

4. CLIFF British English a cliff on the side of a mountain

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. scar² verb (past tense and past participle scarred, present participle scarring) [transitive]

1. if a wound or cut scars you, it leaves a permanent mark on your body:
His hands were badly scarred by the fire.
She will probably be scarred for life.

2. if an unpleasant experience scars you, it leaves you with a feeling of sadness or fear that continues for a long time:
She was scarred by her father’s suicide.

3. to spoil the appearance of something Synonym : deface:
quarries that scar the landscape

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

scar
noun
ADJ. deep, large, long | puckered | disfiguring, ugly, unsightly | permanent | emotional, mental, psychological Her mental scars will take time to heal.
VERB + SCAR leave | bear (often figurative) The countryside still bears the scars of the recent hurricane.
SCAR + VERB form | heal
SCAR + NOUN tissue
PREP. ~ on The cut left a permanent scar on his arm.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

scar
verb (often be scarred)
ADV. badly, deeply, hideously His face was badly scarred by the fire.
emotionally, mentally, physically, psychologically She was both physically and mentally scarred by the accident.
permanently
PREP. with (figurative) Their minds were scarred with bitterness.
PHRASES be scarred for life, leave sb scarred The accident left him permanently scarred.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

scar

a big/long scar
For the patients, keyhole surgery means no big scar.
a small scar
She could see the small scar on his right cheek.
a red/white scar
She still had the faint white scar on her ankle.
a permanent scar
If the wound is not stitched, a permanent scar may result.
an ugly/unsightly scar (=unattractive)
The ugly scar spoiled and distorted his face.
a disfiguring scar (=spoiling someone’s appearance)
She was left with disfiguring scars.
a puckered scar (=one where the skin has not healed flat)
She pulled back her hair and showed me a puckered scar near her ear.
a surgical scar (=caused by a medical operation)
He had a large surgical scar on his back.
a physical scar (=a scar on your body, contrasted with a mental scar )
Those three months left her with lifelong physical and psychological scars.
leave a scar
The injury is deep and will leave quite a scar.
have a scar
He had a small white scar under his left eye.
bear a scar formal (=have it on your body)
He still bore the scars of its teeth on his leg.
a scar runs somewhere
A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone.
scar tissue
His hand was rough with scar tissue.
a deep scar
The death of his mother left a deep scar on the young boy.
a permanent scar
That affair left a permanent scar on my heart.
psychological/mental/emotional scars
The mental scars left by the accident are still with him.
leave a scar (=leave someone with feelings of fear or sadness)
Psychologically, the attack has left a deep scar.
carry/bear scars (=to suffer from feelings of fear or sadness )
These children will carry their emotional scars with them for the rest of their lives.
scars heal
The mental scars will eventually heal.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

blemish a mark on your skin that spoils its appearance:
John grew a beard to hide the blemishes on his chin.
mole a small dark, sometimes raised, mark on your skin:
Some moles may become cancerous.
Helena found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there before.
freckles small light brown marks on your skin, especially on your face but also on your arms, shoulders etc:
She had a light sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
birthmark a permanent mark on your skin that you have had since you were born:
There was a small birthmark on her left cheek.
bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit:
Her legs were covered in cuts and bruises.
scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you:
The injury left a small scar on his forehead.
pimple/zit (also spot British English) a small raised red mark or lump on your skin, which usually appears when a child is between 12 and 18 years old:
When I was a teenager I had terrible spots.
The boy had a few pimples under his chin.
wart a small hard raised mark on your skin caused by a virus:
His face was covered in hairy warts.
blister a small area of skin that is swollen and full of liquid because it has been rubbed or burned:
There was a blister on his arm where the boiling milk had splashed him.
rash an area of small red spots on your skin, caused by an illness or an allergy:
I can’t eat strawberries - they give me a rash.
be badly scarred
Her legs were badly scarred from a car accident.
be permanently scarred
His face had been permanently scarred by smallpox.
be hideously scarred (=in a very unattractive way)
The right side of her face was hideously scarred.
be scarred for life (=get a permanent scar)
A little girl has been scarred for life in a tragic playground accident.
leave somebody scarred
The surgery left her face and neck scarred.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

mark a dirty area on something that spoils its appearance:
The bark of the tree had made black marks on her trousers.
spot a small mark on something:
a grease spot on my shirt
stain a mark that is difficult to remove, especially one made by a dark liquid:
a wine stain on the tablecloth
blood stains
smudge a mark that is made when something touches against a surface:
There was a smudge of lipstick on his cheek.
He had a smudge of chalk on his jacket.
smear a mark that is made by a small amount of something spread across a surface:
The table had a smear of paint on the top.
fingerprint (also fingermark British English) a mark on the surface of something that is made by someone’s fingers:
The glass was covered with greasy fingerprints.
blemish a mark on your skin that spoils its appearance:
John grew a beard to hide the blemishes on his chin.
mole a small dark, sometimes raised, mark on your skin:
Some moles may become cancerous.
Helena found a mole on her arm which had definitely not been there before.
freckles small light brown marks on your skin, especially on your face but also on your arms, shoulders etc:
She had a light sprinkling of freckles across her nose.
birthmark a permanent mark on your skin that you have had since you were born:
There was a small birthmark on her left cheek.
bruise a purple or brown mark on your skin that you get because you have fallen or been hit:
Her legs were covered in cuts and bruises.
scar a permanent mark on your skin, caused by a cut or by something that burns you:
The injury left a small scar on his forehead.
pimple/zit (also spot British English) a small raised red mark or lump on your skin, which usually appears when a child is between 12 and 18 years old:
When I was a teenager I had terrible spots.
The boy had a few pimples under his chin.
wart a small hard raised mark on your skin caused by a virus:
His face was covered in hairy warts.
blister a small area of skin that is swollen and full of liquid because it has been rubbed or burned:
There was a blister on his arm where the boiling milk had splashed him.
rash an area of small red spots on your skin, caused by an illness or an allergy:
I can’t eat strawberries - they give me a rash.

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