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Mar   /mɑr/   Listen
verb
Mar  v. t.  (past & past part. marred; pres. part. marring)  
1.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. "I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks." "But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost." "Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage."
2.
To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject."


noun
Mar  n.  A small lake. See Mere. (Prov. Eng.)


Mar  n.  A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.





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"Mar" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mosses—whilst I am only an old broken-down skate. I'm worse than you know. I went down to Sibley first with hell in me heart towards you, but that soon passed away—I loved ye as a man should love the girl he marries—and I love ye now as I love the saints. I wouldn't mar your young life fer anything in this world—'tis me wish to lave you as beautiful and fresh as I found you, and to give you all I have besides—so stay with me, if you can, till the other man comes." Here a new thought intruded. "Has he come now? Tell me if he has. ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... knowledge from within, and dirt and hard experience from without. He had a blanket around his shoulders and had evidently just risen from his bed. "Come in," he repeated, "and don't make no noise. The Old Man's in there talking to mar," he continued, pointing to an adjacent room which seemed to be a kitchen, from which the Old Man's voice came in deprecating accents. "Let me be," he added, querulously, to Dick Bullen, who had caught ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... Amore, Crudo Amore, | Il mio Core non fa per te | bis Suffrir non vo tormenti Senza mai sperar mar ce Belta che sia Tiranna, Belta che sia Tiranna Doll meo offerto recetto non e Il tuo rigor singunna Se le pene Le catene Tenta auolgere al mio pie See see Crudel Amore | Il mio Core non fa per te. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn
... Martha drew a long breath. Then seeing that the holes in her gloves showed, she tucked them further under the singing book. This called to mind the broken shoe-strings, and she moved her feet back out of sight. But even unmended gloves and untidy shoes could not mar Martha Matilda's sweet feeling of comfort—poor little Martha Matilda, longing so to be taken in somewhere, but hardly knowing where ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher
... its rising, so did the beauties around the lad increase; and he tramped on with a sensation of wonder coming upon him, that with all so glorious at early morn in this world of ours, it should be the work of the highest order of creatures upon it to mar and destroy, and contrive the horrors which disfigure it from ...
— The Black Tor - A Tale of the Reign of James the First • George Manville Fenn


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