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MAR

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Irregular inflected forms: marred    , marring   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

Example:

a facial blemish

Synonyms:

blemish; defect; mar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mar" is a kind of...):

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mar"):

blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)

milium; whitehead (a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland)

verruca; wart ((pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus)

stigma (a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease)

blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot (a blemish made by dirt)

burn; burn mark (a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body))

mark; scar; scrape; scratch (an indication of damage)

mole (a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin)

dent; ding; gouge; nick (an impression in a surface (as made by a blow))

crack (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts)

check; chip (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something)

chatter mark (a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece)

birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)

Derivation:

mar (make imperfect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The month following February and preceding April

Synonyms:

Mar; March

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("Mar" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Mar"):

March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)

mid-March (the middle part of March)

March 19; Saint Joseph; St Joseph (a Christian holy day)

March 2; Texas Independence Day (Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836)

Annunciation; Annunciation Day; Lady Day; March 25 (a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

Holonyms ("Mar" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroy or injure severely

Example:

mutilated bodies

Synonyms:

mar; mutilate

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):

maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):

force out; gouge (force with the thumb)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make imperfect

Example:

nothing marred her beauty

Synonyms:

deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):

cloud; corrupt; defile; sully; taint (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon)

blemish; deface; disfigure (mar or spoil the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Credits

 Context examples: 

He was continually marred and scarred by the teeth of the pack, and as continually he left his own marks upon the pack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

This was a truly thrilling scene, though some persons might have thought that the sudden tumbling down of a quantity of long red hair rather marred the effect of the villain's death.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I offered the lady marriage, but she refused it on the grounds that such a match might mar my career.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had already remarked that his language was excellent, marred with an occasional slight inaccuracy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

I had but to walk up to Wolstonbury in the war time to see the sails of the French chasse-marées and privateers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft.

(Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Maróth pointed out it would have been much more costly and time-consuming to research mortar technology than to acquire it this way.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

Mars will reach the midpoint of its current dust storm season on October 29th of this year.

(Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars, NASA)

This neoplasm tends to grow rapidly and may metastasize outside the central nervous system. (From Donnet et al., J Neurooncol 1999 Mar;42(1):79-83)

(Meningeal Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)