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

Tuesday marks two years since the October 7 attacks, when militants led by Palestinian group Hamas crossed into southern Israel and killed roughly 1,200 people and deeply scarred Israeli society. —Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

Things came to a head when Cooper was three years old, and Molly had an encounter with him that left her bitten and scarred. —Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025

At least three people, including two children, were killed in the wildfire-scarred village after torrential rain triggered raging flash flooding in July, wiping out the Ruidoso Downs Race Track and over 150 businesses and homes, many that had just rebuilt, displacing over 400 people. —Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025

People Mashkan's age are either scarred by the Holocaust or in denial about that. —Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 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