scar
Other forms: scars; scarred; scarring
A scar is a place where a wound healed but is still visible, or if you're little, it's a mark where a boo-boo was.
Scar is from the Greek word eskhara, a "scab formed after a burn." It's all that and more. Scar can be a noun or a verb — you can have a scar on your knee after your skateboarding incident, and a bad round of chicken pox can scar you. Something scary can scar, you, too, like a horror movie or catching your parents in the act. Scars can be emotional. Take one letter off scare and you're left with a scar.
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a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissuetypes:callusbony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bonecheloid, keloidraised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repairpockmarka scar or pit on the skin that is left by a pustule of smallpox or acne or other eruptive diseasesword-cuta scar from a cut made by a swordvaccinationthe scar left following inoculation with a vaccinechestnuta small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's legtype of:symptom(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
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an indication of damage
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mark with a scar
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Vocabulary from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."
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