: 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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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 See All Example Sentences for scarred

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First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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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 28 May. 2025.

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