scarred

Verb

scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)

1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
   • Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
   • Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet...1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
3. (figuratively, transitive) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
   • Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

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