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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scar
    n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured
         tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice]
    2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar,
       mark]
    v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face
         permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scar \Scar\, v. i.
   To form a scar.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scar \Scar\, n. [Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an
   isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiaer, Sw. sk[aum]r.
   Cf. Skerry.]
   An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a
   bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
   [Written also scaur.]
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         O sweet and far, from cliff and scar,
         The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.    --Tennyson.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scar \Scar\, n. [L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.]
   (Zool.)
   A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
   [1913 Webster] Scarab

5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scar \Scar\, n. [OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough
   (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. ? hearth,
   fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. Eschar.]
   1. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound
      or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is
      healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a
      blemish; a disfigurement.
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            This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a
            wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. --T.
                                                  Burnet.
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   2. (Bot.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a
      leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation
      of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scar \Scar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Scarring.]
   To mark with a scar or scars.
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         Yet I'll not shed her blood;
         Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. --Shak.
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         His cheeks were deeply scarred.          --Macaulay.
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Thesaurus Results for scar:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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