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marre

marre is the obsolete spelling of mar.

Meaning of mar

Verb

mar (third-person singular simple present mars, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)

  1. (transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
    • […] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:1551, William Turner, “Prologe”, in A new Herball, etc., folio Aiiii

See all 4 meanings of mar

Forms of marre

third-person singular presentmarres
present participlemarring
past participlemarred
pastmarred

Questions about marre

What is marre the obsolete spelling of?
Marre is the obsolete spelling of mar.

Words near marre in the dictionary

  1. marras
  2. Marrawah
  3. Marraweeney
  4. Marrazzo
  5. Marrazzos
  6. marre
  7. marred
  8. marredness
  9. Marree
  10. Marrees
  11. marrellid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: marre (page history and authors); mar (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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