scarred

adjective

ˈskärd 

: having or marked by a scar or many scars

a scarred finger/face

an old, badly scarred piece of furniture

The old tile on the walls is cracked and grimy; the wooden floor is scarred; pipes and wires look slapdash and dangerous.

—Thomas Matthews

At night, when candlelight softens their scarred and weathered faces, the hard men of the French Foreign Legion begin to sing.

—Geraldine Brooks

The plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life.

—Natalie Angier

The impression left by her study is that it indeed took fortitude on the part of these authors to channel resentment into creation, to make beautiful texts out of scarred lives.

—Lois E. Nesbitt

Examples of scarred in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Losada and Diego were left scarred for the rest of their lives. —Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026

Pallot revisited the scarred site 35 years later in 2015. —Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026

Whole regions of its scarred far side did not appear a brilliant lunar white, but a much more familiar, homey hue. —Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026

My hope is that images can convey a landscape scarred with secrets, where on rare mornings an ethereal mist rises off fields to meet the certainty of past violence held by the soil. —Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scarred

• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard
• courtyard
• debarred
• diehard