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scarred
[skahrd]
adjective
having a scar left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
He is tall and well-built, with a badly scarred face where he was bitten by a shark.
experiencing the psychological aftereffects of suffering or trauma.
The main character endures childhood abuse and grows up to be a deeply scarred individual who thinks the whole world is against him.
(of a wound, burn, etc.) having formed a scar in healing.
As healing progresses, the patient must be weaned away from needing a gauze wrap on the closed, scarred wound.
blemished or marred as a result of damage or use.
Empty corrugated-iron buildings lie amidst a scarred landscape full of rubble.
They furnished their first apartment with a used desk, a badly scarred table, and two old chairs with rickety legs.
Botany.bearing a mark indicating a former point of attachment, as where a leaf has fallen off.
As the dieffenbachia ages, some of the lower leaves dry up and fall off, leaving a scarred stem that gradually lengthens.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of scar.
Other 51Թ Forms
- unscarred adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Example Sentences
The family story is told through the lens of Charlie Trammell III, a World War II veteran emotionally scarred by the violence he witnessed on the battlefield and at home in Jim Crow Virginia.
The attack left him scarred physically and emotionally.
The city has been scarred and reshaped by the conflict.
Outside court, Mrs Turvey embarked on a list of thank yous, including for the trial witnesses, most of whom were "young children that are scarred for life".
But the central relationship between Baldwin’s veteran killer and McDermott’s scarred innocent never quite gels into meaningful cross-generational intimacy, and the chase around them feels meandering.
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