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mar - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
- transitive verb To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
- noun A disfiguring mark; a blemish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deface or disfigure; injure by cutting, breaking, abrading, crushing, etc.; impair in form or substance.
- To impair in quality or attributes; affect injuriously; damage the character, value, or appearance of; harm.
- noun A blot; a blemish; an injury.
- noun An abbreviation of March;
- noun of maritime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
- noun Prov. Eng. A small lake. See
mere . - transitive verb To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
- transitive verb To spoil; to ruin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
spoil , todamage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make imperfect
- noun a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- verb destroy or injure severely
- noun the month following February and preceding April
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English merren, from Old English mierran, merran, to impede.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English merren, from Old English mierran ("to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err"), from Proto-Germanic *marzijanan (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, dristurb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar ("to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin"), Dutch marren ("to push along, delay, hinder"), German dialectal merren ("to entangle"), Icelandic merja ("to bruise, crush"), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, "to annoy, bother, disturb, offend"), Lithuanian miršti ("to forget, lose, become oblivious, die"), Armenian մոռանալ (morranal, "to forget, fail").
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Examples
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I couldn't help asking him whether there had been nothing to mar the pleasure of their stay in Altruria, and he answered: "Well, I don't know as you could rightly say _mar; _ it hadn't ought to have.
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878
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For their mar is a sweet lady – a real feelin 'lady is their mar.
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The focal point of Leiton's El desierto renace en el mar is a fish painted in earth tones that contains a series of abstract forms within its outline.
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The focal point of Leiton's El desierto renace en el mar is a fish painted in earth tones that contains a series of abstract forms within its outline.
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For instance, she says that her work entitled El desierto renace en el mar is a "visual metaphor," which was inspired by these verses of Cortázar's XVII:
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For instance, she says that her work entitled El desierto renace en el mar is a "visual metaphor," which was inspired by these verses of Cortázar's XVII:
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As the story goes, Jacob sees a beautiful woman named Rachel tending sheep one day, and he goes to ask her father Laban for her hand in marriage.
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There were words to describe the stepmother/father in French: marâtre and paråtre.
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Then Veronica mar was the first show i came across that has all the thing i hope for in a show, wit, a little darkness, spunk, drama, just enough romance, and actually makes you think a little.
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The momentary hint of a smile touched the second man's lips and vanished, but his dark eyes changed not at all, nor did the faintest hint of expression mar his smooth golden-brown skin.
Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004
Related Words
synonyms (72)
Words with the same meaning
- be all thumbs
- blemish
- blight
- blot
- blunder
- blunder away
- blunder into
- blunder on
- blunder upon
- boggle
- botch
- bruise
- bumble
- bungle
- butcher
- check
- cicatrize
- commit a gaffe
- crack
- craze
- damage
- deface
- deform
- destroy
- disfigure
- disfigurement
- disproportion
- distort
- dysphemize
- faux pas
- flaw
- flounder
- fumble
- harm
- hurt
- impair
- kink
- look a fright
- look a mess
- look bad
- look like hell
- look something terrible
- lumber
- miscue
- misshape
- muddle
- muff
- murder
- mutilate
- offend
- offend the eye
- play havoc with
- prejudice
- ruin
- scab
- scar
- scarify
- scratch
- slip
- split
- spoil
- stain
- stumble
- taint
- tarnish
- trip
- truncate
- twist
- uglify
- vitiate
- warp
- wreck
hypernyms (1)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (2)
Words that are found in similar contexts
rhymes (77)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Adar
- Aer
- Afar
- Ajar
- Ar
- Azar
- Babar
- Bar
- Barr
- Belvoir
- Car
- Dakar
- Farrar
- Lahr
- Lar
- Myanmar
- Navarre
- Par
- Parr
- Qatar
- R
- Renoir
- Saar
- Starr
- Thar
- Ulaanbaatar
- afar
- ajar
- ar
- are
- baar
- bar
- barre
- bazaar
- bazar
- bizarre
- bondar
- boyar
- car
- carr
- carre
- char
- cigar
- czar
- darr
- dinar
- disbar
- fahr
- far
- foobar
- gar
- guitar
- haar
- har
- jaffar
- jar
- lar
- mahr
- our
- paar
- par
- parr
- phar
- quarre
- r
- r.
- sagar
- scar
- sitar
- spar
- star
- subpar
- superstar
- tar
- thar
- tsar
- wor
bilby commented on the word mar
I know the sorrows of the last abyss:
I walked the cold black pools without a star;
I lay on rock of unseen flint and spar;
I heard the execrable serpent hiss;
I dreamed of sun, fruit-tree, and virgin's kiss;
I woke alone with midnight near and far,
And everlasting hunger, keen to mar;
- William Ellery Leonard, 'Compensation'.
October 4, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word mar
Code for La Chinita airport, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
December 30, 2009