Scar

Pronunciation

• enPR: skär, IPA: /skɑɹ/
• UK IPA: skɑː(ɹ)
• US IPA: skɑɹ, skÉ‘Ëž
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Conflation of Old French escare ("scab") (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhara, "scab left from a burn")); and Middle English skar ("incision, cut, fissure") (from Old Norse skarð ("notch, chink, gap"), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz ("gap, cut, fragment")). Akin to Old Norse skor ("notch, score"), Old English sceard ("gap, cut, notch"). More at shard.

Full definition of scar

Noun

1. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.

Synonyms

• cicatrice

Verb

1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
• ShakespeareYet I'll not shed her blood;
  Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
3. (transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

Derived terms

• scar tissue

From Old Norse sker.

Noun

1. A cliff.
2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.

Latin scarus ("a kind of fish"), from Ancient Greek σκάρος (skáros, "parrot-wrasse, Scarus cretensis").

Noun

1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.

Anagrams

• arcs, cars