Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury;
- Example: "Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?"- Example: "a face scarred by anxiety"- Example: "the fire left her arm badly scarred"2.
blemished by injury or rough wear;
- Example: "the scarred piano bench"- Example: "walls marred by graffiti"[syn: marred, scarred]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scarred
adj 1: deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or
injury; "Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?";
"a face scarred by anxiety"; "the fire left her arm badly
scarred"
2: blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano bench";
"walls marred by graffiti" [syn: marred, scarred]