scar Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
cicatrix; cicatrice.
noun an indication of damage
scratch; scrape; mark.
verb mark with a scar
pit; pock; mark.
- The skin disease scarred his face permanently

OF. escare, F. eschare an eschar, a dry slough (cf. It. & Sp. escara), L. eschara, fr. Gr. hearth, fireplace, scab, eschar. Cf. Eschar.

A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
This earth had the beauty of youth, . . . and not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture on all its body. T. Burnet.
(Bot.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

imperfect & past participle Scarred ; present participle & verbal noun Scarring

To mark with a scar or scars.
Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. Shak.

His cheeks were deeply scarred. Macaulay.

Scot. scar, scaur, Icel. sker a skerry, an isolated rock in the sea; akin to Dan. skiær, Sw. skär. Cf. Skerry.

An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth. Written also scaur.
O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. Tennyson.

L. scarus, a kind of fish, Gr. ska`ros.