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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

marred
    adj 1: blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano
           bench"; "walls marred by graffiti" [syn: marred,
           scarred]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (m[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb.
   n. Marring.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in
   comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian,
   OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship,
   Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend.
   Cf. Moor, v.]
   1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or
      defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
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            I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs
            in their barks.                       --Shak.
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            But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Ire, envy, and despair
            Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton.
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   2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving
      to mend, to mar the subject." --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for marred:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

bandy, bandy-legged, battered, beautiless, blemished, blighted, bloated, blotted, botched, bowlegged, bruised, cacophonic, cacophonous, checked, cicatrized, club-footed, cracked, crazed, defaced, defective, deformed, destroyed, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, dysphemistic, dysphemized, faulty, flatfooted, flawed, grotesque, homely, ill-made, ill-proportioned, ill-shaped, impaired, inelegant, keloidal, kinked, knock-kneed, malformed, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, monstrous, mutilated, out of shape, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, plain, pug-nosed, rachitic, rickety, ruined, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, short on looks, simous, snub-nosed, split, spoiled, spoilt, stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated, twisted, uglified, ugly, ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, warped, wrecked

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