scar

Speech parts

1. scar - Noun

2. scar - Verb

Meaning

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.

A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.

To mark with a scar or scars.

To form a scar.

An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cicatrice cicatrix mark pit scratch scrape disfigurement pock mar hickey palisade welt crag wale scarp
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Antonyms

belle looker smasher picture beauty dish
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Hypernyms

mar defect blemish disfigure symptom deface

Hyponyms

vaccination callus pockmark cicatrize cicatrise keloid

Phrases with the word

defining scar pontil scar radial scar

Derivatives

scarred scarring

Anagrams

cars csar RASC RCSA ARCs

Examples

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. Rosa Parks

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Wallace Stegner

A coward has no scar. Zimbabwe Proverb

The wound heals, the scar remains. Serbian Proverb

He laughs at scar who has received no wound. Swahili Proverb

Close letter words and terms

scapuloulnar scapulovertebral scapus scar limestone scar tissue scar tree