Thesaurus: mar

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1. n. A small lake. See Mere.
2. v. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
3. v. To spoil; to ruin.
4. n. A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
5. n. the month following February and preceding April
6. n. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
7. v. make imperfect
8. v. destroy or injure severely
9. A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.] 1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton. 2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." Shak. A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
10. A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]