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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:
before 900; Middle English merren, Old English merran to hinder, waste; cognate with Old Saxon merrian, Old High German merren to hinder, Old Norse merja to bruise, Gothic marzjan to offend
before 900; Middle English merren, Old English merran to hinder, waste; cognate with Old Saxon merrian, Old High German merren to hinder, Old Norse merja to bruise, Gothic marzjan to offend
Related forms
un·marred, adjective
un·mar·ring, adjective
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.
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.
1, 2. enhance, adorn.
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| —vb , mars, marring, marred | |
| 1. | (tr) to cause harm to; spoil or impair |
| —n | |
| 2. | a disfiguring mark; blemish |
| [Old English merran; compare Old Saxon merrian to hinder, Old Norse merja to bruise] | |
| 'marrer | |
| —n | |
| Mar | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| March | |
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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"). Related: Marred; marring.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
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Example sentences
All of them have been marred by violence and claims of fraud.
Unfortunately, the beauty of the concept is marred by two niggling problems.
Fish caught with barbed hooks and then released are often marred by open sores, some of them quite extensive.
Election day was marred by ballot-stuffing, inaccuracies in voter lists and multiple voting.
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