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mard

mard is the obsolete form of marred.

Meaning of marred

Adjective

marred (comparative more marred, superlative most marred)

  1. Spoiled; harmed or damaged.
  2. (obsolete) Of a person, perplexed or troubled
  3. (Yorkshire, Lancashire) Spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged, soft.

Verb

mard (third-person singular simple present mards, present participle marding, simple past and past participle marded)

  1. (Yorkshire) To cosset (a child)

Noun

mard (plural mards)

  1. An irritable mood.

Forms of mard

Adjective
comparativemore mard
superlativemost mard
Verb
third-person singular presentmards
present participlemarding
past participlemarded
pastmarded
Noun
pluralmards

Words formed from mard

Questions about mard

What does mard mean?
Mard means to cosset (a child).
What is mard the obsolete form of?
Mard is the obsolete form of marred.
What part of speech is mard?
Mard can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mard?
The past tense of mard is marded.

Words near mard in the dictionary

  1. Marcy
  2. Marcyite
  3. Marcyites
  4. marcylite
  5. Marcys
  6. mard
  7. Mardakert
  8. Mardan
  9. Mardan Division
  10. mardana
  11. mardanas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mard (page history and authors); marred (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.

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