scar
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)
[edit] Etymology 1
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 *skardas (“‘gap, cut, fragment’”)). Akin to Old Norse skor "notch, score", Old English sceard "gap, cut, notch". More at shard
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scar (plural scars)
- A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
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a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound
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to scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)
- To mark the skin permanently
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to mark the skin permanently
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[edit] Etymology 2
From old norse sker
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scar (plural scars)