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mar

UK/mɑː(ɹ)/ US/mɑɹ/ uncommon obsolete
verb (2) noun (2)

verb

1.

make imperfect

  • “nothing marred her beauty”
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2.

destroy or injure severely

  • “mutilated bodies”
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noun

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

  • “a facial blemish”
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).

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