as in defect
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
the scars left by carelessly scratching the car door with one's keys
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as in to bruise
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Recent Examples of scar
Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2026
Steep fjord walls around the island are littered with the scars of past rockslides.
—Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Nov. 2025
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Reviewer Nena Farrell saw noticeable improvements in acne and scarring while testing it.
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See All Example Sentences for scar
Noun
Take the time to ponder outdated habits or emotional scars.
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Some of what Leach saw was enough to scar even the most hardened criminal, and Leach was anything but.
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Verb
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The Magic have also been without All-Defensive guard Jalen Suggs for 10 of the past 12 games first because of a left hip bruise and then a right knee MCL bruise.—
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That book’s thrilling confidences have been partly supplanted in The Four Spent the Day Together by embittered score-settling (recounting her bruising run-in with cancel culture, e.g.).—
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Three months later, Romano was fatally beaten in the head with an axe, which was found bloodied by his bedside, per Country Roads Magazine.—
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We were bullied, after all, by the older teenagers who beat us on a regular basis, bloodied our mouths with one punch.—
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Ukrainian officials said four people were killed and at least 22 wounded in the capital overnight.—
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Federal agents wounded two people in a shooting in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday.—
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The Pacers were without Isaiah Jackson (concussion), Bennedict Mathurin (right thumb sprain), Obi Toppin (right foot stress fracture) and Tyrese Haliburton (right Achilles tendon tear).—
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Leaving broken branches and stems in place potentially makes branch damage worse, allows bark to tear further, and leaves plants more exposed to diseases and winter winds.—
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However, wheels have fallen off Detroit’s defense, which has been gashed for at least 29 points in each of its last four outings.—
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The frustration comes from honestly just not having a good enough plan to beat that cover zero and seeing something over and over like that and not being able to gash it.—
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
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Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller.—
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This deer can’t even grab a bite at the local deer feeder without getting gored.—
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Earlier this year, a New Jersey man who was visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison.—
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Stay away from windows as flying debris generated by damaging winds can be deadly.—
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According to Brown, Hurricane Michael damaged 80 percent of the park’s namesake trees, but through a project with the Florida Park Service and Atlanta Botanical Garden, seeds obtained from living trees are being grown and planted in the ravine habitat at Torreya State Park.—
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“Scar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scar. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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