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MARRED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Blemished by injury or rough wear
Example:
walls marred by graffiti
Synonyms:
marred; scarred
Classified under:
Similar:
blemished (marred by imperfections)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb mar
Context examples:
There it lay, so still and gray beneath the drifting wrack—the home of things noble and of things shameful—the theatre where a new name might be made or an old one marred.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I pray you, John, to loose gently, and not to pluck with the drawing-hand, for it is a trick that hath marred many a fine bowman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil. So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight—watching over nothing.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
