mar

Definition of mar

Verbs

make imperfect

"nothing marred her beauty"

Synonyms:: deflower, impair, spoil, vitiate

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; cloud, corrupt, defile, sully, taint
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; blemish, deface, disfigure
mar or spoil the appearance of; mangle, maul
injure badly by beating; mark, pit, pock, scar
mark with a scar

Type of:: damage
inflict damage upon

destroy or injure severely

Synonyms:: mutilate

Types:: force out, gouge
force with the thumb

Type of:: maim
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

Nouns

a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

Synonyms:: blemish, defect

Types:: show 25 types...; hide 25 types...; birthmark, nevus
a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth; nevus flammeus, port-wine stain
a flat birthmark varying from pink to purple; hemangioma simplex, strawberry, strawberry mark
a soft red birthmark; chatter mark
a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece; check, chip
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something; crack
a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts; craze
a fine crack in a glaze or other surface; dent, ding, gouge, nick
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow); dig
a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); mole
a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin; mark, scar, scrape, scratch
an indication of damage; burn, burn mark
a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body); cigarette burn
a burn mark left by a smoldering cigarette; blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot
a blemish made by dirt; blotch, splodge, splotch
an irregularly shaped spot; fingermark, fingerprint
a smudge made by a (dirty) finger; inkblot
a blot made with ink; stigma
a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease; verruca, wart
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus; common wart
a benign growth (often with a rough surface); condyloma acuminatum, genital wart, venereal wart, verruca acuminata
a small benign wart on or around the genitals and anus; juvenile wart
a small benign growth on the faces of hands of children; plantar wart
a wart occurring on the sole of the foot; milium, whitehead
a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland; blackhead, comedo
a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin

Type of:: appearance, visual aspect
outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

Vocabulary Lists for mar

abase
abash
abate
abbreviate
abdicate

suppliant
adjure
woe
slay
suborn

Macbeth
thane
weird sister
hautboy
Duncan

noxious
spur
speck
bound
repugnance

ablation
abnormal
abrasion
abrupt
absolute

abjure
arrogate
bilk
blight
blithe

whittle
histrionic
dangle
fumble
contrite

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Mar

Definition of mar

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Vocabulary Lists for mar

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