Word.ws English Dictionary

bear the scars

bear the scars verb: to live with emotional damage caused by past events that cannot be easily forgotten.

Verb

bear the scars (third-person singular simple present bears the scars, present participle bearing the scars, simple past bore the scars, past participle borne the scars)

  1. To live with emotional damage caused by past events that cannot be easily forgotten.
    • She still bore the scars of a very acrimonious divorce, which made her wary of new commitments.

Forms of bear the scars

third-person singular presentbears the scars
present participlebearing the scars
pastbore the scars
past participleborne the scars

Questions about bear the scars

What does bear the scars mean?
Bear the scars means to live with emotional damage caused by past events that cannot be easily forgotten.
What part of speech is bear the scars?
Bear the scars is a verb.
What is the past tense of bear the scars?
The past tense of bear the scars is bore the scars.

Words near bear the scars in the dictionary

  1. Bear State
  2. bear tamer
  3. bear tamers
  4. bear the bell
  5. bear the brunt
  6. bear the scars
  7. bear trap
  8. bear traps
  9. bear up
  10. bear upon
  11. Bear Valley

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bear the scars (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bear the scars.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bear_the_scars. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.