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  1. noun A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.
  2. noun A lingering sign of damage or injury, either mental or physical: nightmares, anxiety, and other enduring scars of wartime experiences.
  3. noun Botany A mark indicating a former attachment, as of a leaf to a stem.
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  • On the left-hand skirt he found a kind of scar, a longish mark with the rough tweed puckered about it. —  Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 13: 1944
  • Even more arresting to her than the scar was the superb ivory carving he wore around his neck. —  Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer 1 - Fire Dancer (v1.0)
  • I carry a scar to-day in memory of that time, and the scar is about three inches long. —  Fifteen Years in Hell
  • But visually the scar was there and that was the best protection I could have. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • A delicate line -- scar or tattoo, I couldn't tell which -- arched almost invisibly from the bridge of her nose over her right eyebrow, curving around her cheekbone and past the corner of her lip to disappear into the dimple at the point of her chin. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 03 - March 1997
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  1. Middle English, alteration of escare, from Old French, scab, from Late Latin eschara, from Greek eskhara, hearth, scab caused by burning.
  2. Middle English skerre, from Old Norse sker, low reef; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also skar; from Middle English scar, scarre, skarre, from Old French escare, French escarre, escharre = Spanish Portuguese Italian escara, a scar, scab, crust, from Latin eschara, a scar, especially from a burn, from Greek ἐσχάρα, a scab, scar caused by burning, a hearth, means of producing fire, etc.: see eschar.
  2. from scar, n.
  3. Also (Scots) scaur; from Middle English scarre, skerre, from Icelandic sker, an isolated rock in the sea, = Swedish skär = Danish skjær (cf. Old Dutch schaere), a cliff, a rock; cf. Icelandic skor, a rift in a rock; from Icelandic skera = Swedish skära = Danish skære, cut, shear: see shear, and cf. share, score, and shore. Hence also skerry.
  4. from Latin scarus, from Greek σκάρος, a sea-fish, Scarus cretensis, supposed by the ancients to chew the cud.
 

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