scar

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Conflation of Old French escare "scab" (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhara) "scab left from a burn"); 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 sceard (gap, cut, notch). More at shard

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Wikipedia scar (plural scars)

  1. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
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scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)

  1. To mark the skin permanently
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From old norse sker

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scar (plural scars)

  1. a cliff
  2. a rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water

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From Old Irish scaraim.

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scar (verbal noun scaradh)

  1. to sever
  2. to separate
  3. to tear asunder

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