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

Godwin himself was subjected to experimentation by his father that left him a scarred husk of a man unable to process food without the help of hulking machinery; this approach makes a significant effort to nullify the horrors of what Godwin has done. —Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024

And a lot of them become just old, scarred, traumatized people that end up beating their wives or becoming alcoholics and divorcing and all the typical stuff in our societies. —Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2024

Meanwhile, the girl has been left scarred, the family told the state attorney’s office. —Linda So, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024

In fact, O’Brien doesn’t feel scarred by his father’s advice at all, but instead, continues to be motivated by it. —Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above