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🩹 Permanent marks 🧠 Lasting trauma 🌄 Surface damage 💔 Causing lasting harm 💔 Causing damage
to scarring

to scarring

4.3
To make a permanent mark on the skin or harm someone's feelings
  • verb
  • /ˈskɑːrɪŋ/
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  • The dermatologist explained that this treatment would minimize the scarring from past acne breakouts on my skin.

And then the laser Genesis was for like redness and collagen production and my mind's just keeping me other skin things scarring, I think.

Examples

  • After the surgery, the doctor warned me that there would be some scarring as part of the healing process.

  • Some doctors recommended restraints such as splints and later stages to prevent patients from scarring in their faces by scratching.

  • It's actually been shown to reduce scarring in the eye.

  • I just constantly have scarring on this half of my face so it looks really light.

  • So the scarring started happening inside the dungeon.

  • And some of the endometriosis is like scarring that happens as you like, release your, you know, eggs and stuff.

  • Like you can't cough like this and not have some scarring or something.

  • I don't have that skin that scars that great.

  • If you've got acne scarring and it's their pink, for example, you can help them heal.

  • The accident left her with scars that serve as a reminder of the painful experience, but she learned to embrace the scarring it caused her emotionally.

Synonyms

wounding
vsto scarring
6.3

Causing emotional pain or hurt

causes lasting marks or long-term damage to skin or emotions

Antonyms

repair
352 2.3

Work done to fix something that is broken

healing
2.6

That helps the body or mind become healthy again

How Damaging

scarred
5 4.6
to scarring
4.3
marked
2.7
unmarked
43 4.3

Surface Forms

scarring infinitive
scarring present participle
scars third person singular
scarred past
scarred past participle

Morphology

scarring = scar (transparent) = scar + ing

Present-participle form of the verb 'scar' used in progressive or participial clauses; form and meaning are regular.

Etymology

Scarring comes from the simple word scar, meaning 'cut' or 'mark'. So to be scarring is to make a lasting mark on the skin or on someone's feelings.