Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
- transitive verb To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
- noun A disfiguring mark; a blemish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deface or disfigure; injure by cutting, breaking, abrading, crushing, etc.; impair in form or substance.
- To impair in quality or attributes; affect injuriously; damage the character, value, or appearance of; harm.
- noun A blot; a blemish; an injury.
- noun An abbreviation of March;
- noun of maritime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
- noun Prov. Eng. A small lake. See
mere . - transitive verb To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
- transitive verb To spoil; to ruin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
spoil , todamage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make imperfect
- noun a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- verb destroy or injure severely
- noun the month following February and preceding April
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I couldn't help asking him whether there had been nothing to mar the pleasure of their stay in Altruria, and he answered: "Well, I don't know as you could rightly say _mar; _ it hadn't ought to have.
Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance William Dean Howells 1878
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For their mar is a sweet lady – a real feelin 'lady is their mar.
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The focal point of Leiton's El desierto renace en el mar is a fish painted in earth tones that contains a series of abstract forms within its outline.
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The focal point of Leiton's El desierto renace en el mar is a fish painted in earth tones that contains a series of abstract forms within its outline.
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For instance, she says that her work entitled El desierto renace en el mar is a "visual metaphor," which was inspired by these verses of Cortázar's XVII:
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For instance, she says that her work entitled El desierto renace en el mar is a "visual metaphor," which was inspired by these verses of Cortázar's XVII:
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As the story goes, Jacob sees a beautiful woman named Rachel tending sheep one day, and he goes to ask her father Laban for her hand in marriage.
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There were words to describe the stepmother/father in French: marâtre and paråtre.
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Then Veronica mar was the first show i came across that has all the thing i hope for in a show, wit, a little darkness, spunk, drama, just enough romance, and actually makes you think a little.
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The momentary hint of a smile touched the second man's lips and vanished, but his dark eyes changed not at all, nor did the faintest hint of expression mar his smooth golden-brown skin.
Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004
bilby commented on the word mar
I know the sorrows of the last abyss:
I walked the cold black pools without a star;
I lay on rock of unseen flint and spar;
I heard the execrable serpent hiss;
I dreamed of sun, fruit-tree, and virgin's kiss;
I woke alone with midnight near and far,
And everlasting hunger, keen to mar;
- William Ellery Leonard, 'Compensation'.
October 4, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word mar
Code for La Chinita airport, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
December 30, 2009