scarring
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- noun
- /ˈskɑːrɪŋ/
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- The scarring on the hillside was evident after the heavy storms last winter.
Does this shop slash cave have any battle scars from previous projects?
- Does this shop slash cave have any battle scars from previous projects?
- The lightning sky like scars on a face.
- Yeah, OK, we've got we've got the debris scar.
Examples
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Scarring, bruising, lacerations, and exsanguinations.
Blog text (22) -
There's a lot of scarring out here.
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We're talking about the purple sort of discolourations that can be left on the skin, the scarring and all of that kind of stuff and what you can do about it.
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As you can see, the weight is evenly distributed and there's minimal scarring.
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Fires that might otherwise remain in an understory, scarring trunks but not killing the trees, for example, may use the fern as a ladder.
Academic text (2000) -
And there were other sources of anguish and suffering, blindness, scarring, a disfigurement, respiratory complications.
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Before the spots of young cubs emerge through their black natal fur, they are identified by their patterns of ear nicks and scarring.
Academic text (1998) -
Less scarring would have occurred if my teacher had simply stated that we were using 3 as an approximation of the actual, infinitely long number, which represents the true relationship.
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THIS PISTON HAD SCARRING ON IT, SO INSTEAD OF IT MOVING FREELY BACK AND FORTH, IT WAS SEIZED IN THE BORE.
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Geologists studied the scarring of the earth caused by years of erosion from the river.
Synonyms
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A permanent mark on skin or another surface after a wound heals
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Scarring comes from the word scar, which meant 'cut' or 'notch', and people also use it for visible marks on land or buildings after damage. So landscape scarring is like a wound on the earth that leaves a clear, lasting mark.