scarred

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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

scarred

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past and past participle of scar entry 2

Examples of scarred in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Many of them, including Ned and his childhood friend and rival, Roland, are scarred by their time as youth players, haunted by memories of the sadistic coaches and cruel, competitive fathers who terrorized them both on and off the court. — Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

Director Padraic McKinley’s debut feature stars Ethan Hawke as a battle-scarred veteran hired to smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness. — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026

But questions have continually circulated within the party about whether voters who are scarred from the party’s 2024 loss would be enthusiastic about a Harris run. — Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Here’s why A buck tears into a cedar tree trunk, leaving shavings of bark all around its already scarred base. — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scarred

• asgard
• backyard
• barnyard
• blackguard
• bombard
• brickyard
• canard
• churchyard
• coastguard
• courtyard
• debarred
• diehard