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

My First Look at Liver Disease: My Dad's Diagnosis My father was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis after a surgeon saw that his liver was scarred during a gallbladder removal surgery. —Aroosha Sarrafi, Health, 11 May 2025

Time and time again, our youth are gunned down in classrooms and our communities are scarred forever. —Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025

Investors, not to mention electoral pollsters who were active in the 1970s, remain scarred by the stagflation that took root during that decade. —Rob Wile, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2025

She was enchanted by the centuries-old wood plank floors, scarred and slightly sloped. —Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 5 May 2025

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