scarred
- adjective
- /skɑrd/
- Although the 12-year-old boy survived, his scarred face was a permanent reminder of this brush with death.
- scarred face
- scarred man
- scarred knee
And now here we are and I'm an acne scarred Angel and I want to die.
- And now here we are and I'm an acne scarred Angel and I want to die.
- Pharaoh is talking to GED, her face scarred and whole.
- But Carl stood erect, his relic, this relic from the past, body still hard and firm, scarred face and head.
- At that GED lift his lifted his scarred face meeting his friends eyes.
- The false ego is the scarred up tissue wounded person.
Examples
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It's a badly scarred record, one she listened to as a child.
Fiction book (1993) -
He is horribly scarred, and his eye is useless.
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"I remember that and I feel like... the ground itself seems a little scarred.
Academic text (2016) -
His horse was tough and scarred from many battles.
Fiction book (2000) -
The keeper was a big, ruddy-complexioned fellow with a scarred face and a ready smile.
Fiction book (1991) -
Hiroshima today is a bustling, beautiful city, scarred but healed.
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Lowering her eyes, she saw that his big scarred hands had twisted the fabric of his cap into ugly folds.
Fiction book (1992) -
Rain was splashing onto the windowsill and the scarred and blackened parquet floor beneath it.
Fiction book (1995) -
The pictures weren't very pleasant to look at: emaciated creatures with agonized expressions, bruised, battered, and scarred.
Fiction book (2002) -
The soldier's scarred face told the story of his bravery in battle.scarred
Synonyms
Harmed so it works or looks worse
Having small scratches and light surface damage, like on shoes or bags
Having a damaged appearance that makes a face or thing look ruined
Having marks or small faults that make something less good
Marked by lines or scars on the skin
Having a mark or fault that makes it look worse
Having many small pits or scars, often on the skin
Covered with many small holes or scars
An object that is damaged and has many marks from rough use
Antonyms
Compounds
How Damaged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scarred comes from the old word skar and the root scar, which mean 'cut', so a scar is the mark left when the skin is cut and heals and scarred describes something marked or damaged by those cuts.