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mar

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verb

ˈmär

marred;marring

Synonyms ofmar next

transitive verb

:to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of:spoil

whose life has beenmarred by problems with drugs—

William Plummer

their relations weremarred by disgraceful conflicts—

L. W. Beck

the race wasmarred by a 23-car pileup—

Mike Harris

archaic

:to inflict serious bodily harm on

:destroy

mar

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noun

:something that mars:blemish

mar

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abbreviation (1)

maritime

Mar

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abbreviation (2)

March

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injure,harm,hurt,damage,impair,mar mean to affect injuriously.

injure implies the inflicting of anything detrimental to one's looks, comfort, health, or success.

badlyinjured in an accident

harm often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss.

careful not toharm the animals

hurt implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings.

hurt by their callous remarks

damage suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness.

a tabledamaged in shipping

impair suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution.

years of smoking hadimpaired his health

mar applies to injury that spoils perfection (as of a surface) or causes disfigurement.

the text ismarred by many typos

Examples ofmar in a Sentence

Verb A large scarmarred his face. Her actingmars an otherwise great movie.Noun the Johnsons complained to the movers about broken dishes andmars on the furniture

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Verb

Sadly, the price of an alternative school was too high, and she was forced to send her children to public schoolsmarredby gang violence and bullying.—

Matt Robison,MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, says that many of her images aremarredby satellites crossing her plane of view.—

Jonathan O'Callaghan,Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2025Oracle has struggled with a thorny, years-long EHR rollout with the Department of Veterans Affairs,marredby patient safety concerns.—

Ashley Capoot,CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025The agency head said a $20 billion Biden climate program wasmarredby fraud and abuse.—

Catrin Einhorn,New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025See All Example Sentences formar