Definitions for scar

scar scar

Spelling: [skahr]
IPA: /skɑr/

Scar is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in scar (acrs).

Definitions for scar

noun

  1. a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
  2. a lasting aftereffect of trouble, especially a lasting psychological injury resulting from suffering or trauma.
  3. any blemish remaining as a trace of or resulting from injury or use.
  4. Botany. a mark indicating a former point of attachment, as where a leaf has fallen from a stem.
  5. a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.
  6. a low or submerged rock in the sea.

verb (used with object)

  1. to mark with a scar.

verb (used without object)

  1. to form a scar in healing.

Origin of scar

1350-1400; Middle English; aphetic variant of eschar

Examples for scar

A thick, 10-centimeter-long scar ran down his abdomen from the resulting operation.

The other so young the only scar he had was the mark of the attram.

A scar marks her right wrist where the bullet hit her eight months ago.

There was a scar on one cheek, and, altogether, he was not very prepossessing in his appearance.

He had his right hand to his face and was absent-mindedly rubbing the scar on his left cheekbone.

[points to above the knee] The scar looks like a shark bite.

"The man who stared at me over his candle has a scar on his forehead," said Biddy.

Had he laid a finger-weight of sympathy on her, would it not have left a scar for life?

And if it is to truly heal, Palestinians and Israelis must make of the scar a source of succor, not fear.

That slit had healed now, but the scar was always at his throat, and in both their hearts.

Word Value for scar
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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