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So when all three were mended firm and fast, being bound with iron, still the grimly river hurled over the dam, and the voice of Flumen muttered in the dark of winter nights, "Yet will I mar--mar--mar--yet will I mar Mill and Maid Oho!"

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  1. transitive verb To inflict damage, especially disfiguring damage, on.
  2. transitive verb To impair the soundness, perfection, or integrity of; spoil.
  3. noun A disfiguring mark; a blemish.

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  • Then F'mar, as tall as she was but rangier in frame and bony shoulders, leaned toward her with a friendly leer. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
  • Torene felt N'klas's elbow in her ribs, and she saw that F'mar was also watching her, a broad, happy, and very smug grin on his face. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
  • "Why do you imagine that she is mar--ar--arried She is not_--_not married then? —  Fairy Fingers A Novel
  • When? And how came you to be near him It was on the Sunday after the mar--the foolish ceremony. —  Old Ebenezer
  • Wagh! I feel as holler about the kidneys as my ole mar--Geehosophat! —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
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  1. Middle English merren, from Old English mierran, merran, to impede.

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  1. from Middle English marren, merren, from Anglo-Saxon *merran, myrran, mirran, in comp. ā-merran, ā-myrran. (later Middle English amerren, amarran), hinder, waste, spoil, = Old Saxon merrian = OFries. meria = Middle Dutch merren, meren, maren, Dutch marren = Middle Low German marren, merren, hinder, retard, bind, tie, = Old High German marrjan, marren, merren, Middle High German merren, hinder, retard, German dial. merren, entangle, = Icelandic merja, bruise, crush, = Gothic (Moesogothic) marzjan, cause to stumble; hence, from Teutonic, Middle Latin marrire, hinder, annoy, injure, later Spanish marrar = Provencal marrir = Old French marrir, marir, hinder (intransitive lose one's way, stray), annoy, injure. Cf. moor, which is from the D. word cognate with English mar, and maraud, which is perhaps from the Old French form of the verb.
  2. from mar, v.
 

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