scarring
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈskɑːrɪŋ/
- Specialized
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daño emocional
- Losing his job caused significant scarring in his mental health, leaving him anxious and withdrawn for months.
Words result in scars that often don't disappear.
- Words result in scars that often don't disappear.
- The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars behind.
- And because we will forget about this in time, what people consider to be the scars of that death will, you know, slowly heal up.
- I the only things I have leftover from high school are deep emotional scars now.
- And if you feel like a fat fuck, and if the people that you love and who are supposed to protect you with the best of intentions called you Gordito, didn't that leave scars?
- It's in these nooks of the suffering within your brain, in the scarring are all the answers to why you are on the couch feeling sorry for yourself.
Examples
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I cannot say that I have come through these alienating and alienated experiences unscathed, without some scarring.
Blog text (20) -
Bullying is a very serious matter and can lead to severe emotional scarring and even suicide.
Blog text (2) -
However, the whole twelve-year experience is, for me, completely overshadowed by the memory of one terrible, mind-scarring experience.
Fiction book (1992) -
That's why we try to make sure... that Kevin doesn't miss out on any of those essential... emotionally scarring experiences that he'd get at a regular school.
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The trauma from the accident left deep emotional scarring that required years of therapy to overcome.
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She carries the scarring of her childhood experiences, which often makes it hard for her to trust others.
Synonyms
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4.8
A very upsetting experience that hurts your feelings and mind
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5.4
A deep hurt to a person's feelings or pride
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1.0
A feeling of emotional or physical pain
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7.4
An old hurt that comes back when you remember it
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5.0
A lasting hurt in your feelings after a very upsetting event
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6.3
A deep hurt inside that stays after a painful event
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7.9
A very strong emotional hurt that stays for a long time after a frightening or sad event
Experiencing lasting emotional harm after frightening or violent events
Antonyms
How Traumatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Scarring comes from the old word scar, which meant 'cut' or 'mark', and people use it for deep emotional marks left by painful events. So emotional scarring is the lasting damage those events make to a person.