Marred

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  marred
       adj 1: having the surface damaged or disfigured [syn: {defaced}]
       2: blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano
          bench"; "walls marred by graffiti" [syn: {scarred}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  marred
       See {mar}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "marred":
     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