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[mahr]
–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


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.


1, 2. enhance, adorn.

Mar.

mar.

M.A.R.

Master of Arts in Religion.

March

[mahrch]
–noun
the third month of the year, containing 31 days. Abbreviation: Mar.

Origin:
bef. 1050; ME March(e) < AF Marche; r. OE Martius < L, short for Mārtius mēnsis month of Mars (Mārti-, s. of Mārs + -us adj. suffix)
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mar   (mär)   
tr.v.   marred, mar·ring, mars
  1. To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.

  2. To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.

n.  A disfiguring mark; a blemish.

[Middle English merren, from Old English mierran, merran, to impede.]
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Word Origin & History

mar 
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").

March 
c.1200, from Anglo-Fr. marche, from O.Fr. marz, from L. Martius (mensis) "(month) of Mars," from Mars (gen. Martis). Replaced O.E. hreðmonaþ, of uncertain meaning, perhaps from hræd "quick, nimble, ready, active, alert, prompt." For March hare, proverbial type of madness, see mad.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: march
Pronunciation: 'märch
Function: noun
: the progression of epileptic activity through the motor centers of the cerebral cortex that ismanifested in localized convulsions in first one and then an adjacent part of the body march of convulsions>
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
MAR
  1. major acquisition review

  2. Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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