: 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

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Similarly, there were widespread fears that the initial 33 hostages set to be released over the next 42 days may be emotionally or physically scarred, or even dead. Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 The skin can look scarred and is not as strong as uninjured skin.1 How to Know When a Wound Is Not Healing A wound that is not healing correctly will look different than a healthy wound. Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 17 Jan. 2025 Trump, during his first term, was scarred when two career military officers detailed to the NSC became whistleblowers, raising their concerns about Trump’s 2019 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the president sought an investigation of Biden and his son Hunter. Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025 Keke Palmer had an interaction with her manager that left her scarred. Raven Brunner, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for scarred 

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of scarred was in the 15th century

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“Scarred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scarred. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.

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