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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Etymology 1

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 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.

Noun

scar (plural scars)

  1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
  2. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
    • 2011, O. P. Sharma, Be a Winner, →ISBN:
      Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success.
  3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
    • 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
      Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
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Verb

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  1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
    • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
  2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
    Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.

Noun

scar (plural scars)

  1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
    • 1847, Tennyson, “The Bugle Song”, in The Princess:
      O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / ⁠And thinner, clearer, farther going! / O sweet and far from cliff and scar / ⁠The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
    • 1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin:
      All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.
  2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
  3. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Translations
cliff — see cliff
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Etymology 3

From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., syn. Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.”).

Noun

scar (plural scars)

  1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

Verb

scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)

  1. to sever
  2. to separate
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
      Do bhí brón mór air a bheith ag scaramhaint le n-a chailín ach ni raibh leigheas air, chaithfeadh sé imtheacht.
      He was very sorry to be separating from his girl, but it couldn’t be helped, he had to go.
  3. to tear asunder

Conjugation

conjugation of scar (first conjugation – A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present scaraim scarann tú;
scarair† 		scarann sé, sí scaraimid scarann sibh scarann siad;
scaraid† 		a scarann; a scaras scartar
past scar mé; scaras scar tú; scarais scar sé, sí scaramar; scar muid scar sibh; scarabhair scar siad; scaradar a scar /
ar scar* 		scaradh
past habitual scarainn scartá scaradh sé, sí scaraimis; scaradh muid scaradh sibh scaraidís; scaradh siad a scaradh /
a scaradh* 		scartaí
future scarfaidh mé;
scarfad 		scarfaidh tú;
scarfair† 		scarfaidh sé, sí scarfaimid;
scarfaidh muid 		scarfaidh sibh scarfaidh siad;
scarfaid† 		a scarfaidh; a scarfas scarfar
conditional scarfainn scarfá scarfadh sé, sí scarfaimis; scarfadh muid scarfadh sibh scarfaidís; scarfadh siad a scarfadh /
a scarfadh* 		scarfaí
subjunctive present go scara mé;
go scarad† 		go scara tú;
go scarair† 		go scara sé, sí go scaraimid;
go scara muid 		go scara sibh go scara siad;
go scaraid† 		— go scartar
past dá scarainn dá scartá dá scaradh sé, sí dá scaraimis;
dá scaradh muid 		dá scaradh sibh dá scaraidís;
dá scaradh siad 		— dá scartaí
imperative scaraim scar scaradh sé, sí scaraimis scaraigí;
scaraidh† 		scaraidís — scartar
verbal noun scaradh
past participle scartha

* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)

Further reading

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Verb

·scar

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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