Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To mark the skin permanently.

    entstellen, verunstalten

    mark with a scar

  2. (intransitive)To form a scar.

  3. (figuratively, transitive)To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

    Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

    traumatisieren

Examples

257 sentences

  1. Do you want to see my scar?

    Хочеш побачити мій шрам? — deniko

    ruХочешь увидеть мой шрам? — odexed

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  2. Tom has a scar on his cheek.

    У Тома шрам на щоці. — deniko

    ruУ Тома шрам на щеке. — sharptoothed

    deTom hat eine Narbe auf der Wange. — Manfredo

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  3. Tom has a scar on his face.

    У Тома на обличчі шрам. — older

    ruУ Тома на лице есть шрам. — Karok

    deTom hat eine Narbe im Gesicht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Tom has a scar on his arm.

    Том має шрам на руці. — lingvokrolik

    ruУ Тома на руке шрам. — Wezel

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  5. Tom has a scar on his left cheek.

    У Тома шрам на лівій щоці. — deniko

    ruУ Тома шрам на левой щеке. — marafon

    deTom hat auf der linken Wange eine Narbe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to mark the skin permanently:
to affect deeply in a traumatic manner:

Origin

From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late La

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.

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Forms

scars, scarring, scarred, scarred
Base formscar · to scar
3rd person singularscars
Present participlescarring
Past simplescarred
Past participlescarred

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscar
he, she, itscars

Past simpleLesson

all personsscarred

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scarred
he, she, ithas scarred

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scar

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedbirthmark
Derivedbattle-scarrednonscarringscarrerscarringly

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

9 patterns
  • scar on his
  • has a scar
  • a scar on
  • scar on your
  • get that scar
  • that scar on
  • has scars on
  • scar on my
  • the scar on

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scantilyscapegoatscapulascarabscarcescarcelyB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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