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[mahr] Pronunciation Key
[mahr] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), marred, mar·ring.
| 1. | to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather. |
| 2. | to disfigure, deface, or scar: The scratch marred the table. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME merren, OE merran to hinder, waste; c. OS merrian, OHG merren to hinder, ON merja to bruise, Goth marzjan to offend]
] —Synonyms 1, 2. flaw, injure; blot. Mar, deface, disfigure, deform agree in applying to some form of injury. Mar is general, but usually refers to an external or surface injury, if it is a physical one: The tabletop was marred by dents and scratches. Deface refers to a surface injury that may be temporary or easily repaired: a tablecloth defaced by penciled notations. Disfigure applies to external injury of a more permanent and serious kind: A birthmark disfigured one side of his face. Deform suggests that something has been distorted or internally injured so severely as to change its normal form or qualities, or else that some fault has interfered with its proper development: deformed by an accident that had crippled him; to deform feet by binding them.
—Antonyms 1, 2. enhance, adorn.
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(mär) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. marred, mar·ring, mars
n. A disfiguring mark; a blemish. [Middle English merren, from Old English mierran, merran, to impede.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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O.E. merran (Anglian), mierran (W.Saxon) "waste, spoil," from P.Gmc. *marzjanan (cf. O.Fris. meria, O.H.G. marren "to hinder, obstruct," Goth. marzjan "to hinder, offend"), considered by some philologists to be from PIE base *mers- "to trouble, confuse" (cf. Skt. mrsyate "forgets, neglects," Lith. mirszati "to forget").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| mar | |
noun | |
| 1. | the month following February and preceding April [syn: March] |
| 2. | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish] |
verb | |
| 1. | make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" |
| 2. | destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate] |
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U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Mar-Mac, NC (CDP, FIPS 41540) Location: 35.33485 N, 78.05604 W
Population (1990): 3282 (1326 housing units)
Area: 11.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Bow Mar, CO (town, FIPS 8070) Location: 39.62580 N, 105.05205 W
Population (1990): 854 (304 housing units)
Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 80123
Del Mar, CA (city, FIPS 18506) Location: 32.96490 N, 117.26245 W
Population (1990): 4860 (2514 housing units)
Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 92014
Loma Mar, CA Zip code(s): 94021
Corona Del Mar, CA Zip code(s): 92625
Rancho Santa Mar, CA Zip code(s): 92688
Sault Sainte Mar, MI Zip code(s): 49783
Boca Del Mar, FL (CDP, FIPS 7235) Location: 26.34460 N, 80.14682 W
Population (1990): 17754 (10353 housing units)
Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Rio del Mar, CA (CDP, FIPS 60928) Location: 36.95784 N, 121.88384 W
Population (1990): 8919 (4580 housing units)
Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 4.2 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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Mar\, n. A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]
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Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (m["a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Marring.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian, OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend. Cf. Moor, v.]1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. --Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. --Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton. 2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." --Shak.
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Mar\, n. A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
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