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scar

UK/skɑː(ɹ)/ US/skɑɹ/ common
noun (2) verb (1)

noun

1.

a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

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verb

1.

mark with a scar

  • “The skin disease scarred his face permanently”
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Origin

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify.

Phrases

  • fire scar
  • leaf scar
  • Red Scar
  • scar limestone
  • scar tissue
  • scar tree
  • top scar
  • trial of scar

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