Synonyms of marring

marring

verb

present participle of mar

1

as in tainting

to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable

mar a politician's reputation with scurrilous rumors

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tainting
• spoiling
• staining
• darkening
• poisoning
• touching
• tarnishing
• distorting
• degrading
• blemishing
• lowering
• blackening
• smearing
• discrediting
• vitiating
• corrupting
• soiling
• polluting
• sullying
• blurring
• discoloring
• clouding
• dirtying
• disgracing
• smudging
• besmirching
• dishonoring
• tarring
• perverting
• debasing
• sinking
• shaming
• cheapening
• twisting
• subverting
• fouling
• demeaning
• abasing
• debauching
• demoralizing
• smutting
• coloring
• smirching
• besmearing
• bastardizing
• depraving
• begriming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cleansing
• purifying
• elevating
• magnifying
• uplifting
• glorifying
• enshrining
• ennobling
• dignifying
• hallowing

2

as in damaging

to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of

the once glossy surface is now marred by numerous small pits and abrasions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• damaging
• injuring
• compromising
• crippling
• hurting
• weakening
• spoiling
• impairing
• harming
• breaking
• eroding
• defacing
• disfiguring
• destroying
• ruining
• undermining
• blemishing
• vitiating
• crossing (up)
• shattering
• bloodying
• deteriorating
• battering
• crabbing
• wounding
• tarnishing
• denting
• wrecking
• flawing
• blighting
• demolishing
• scouring
• wearing (away)
• endamaging
• enfeebling
• enervating
• torturing
• crushing
• smashing
• mutilating
• devastating
• tormenting
• disabling
• lacerating
• mangling
• maiming
• decimating
• washing out
• annihilating
• wasting
• botching
• hamstringing
• queering
• dinging
• pulverizing
• razing
• clobbering
• dashing
• bashing
• totaling
• gumming (up)
• wiping out
• dinting
• scourging
• doing in
• tearing down
• desolating
• laming
• banging up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• fixing
• rebuilding
• reconstructing
• patching
• renovating
• helping
• curing
• revamping
• mending
• healing
• remedying
• rehabilitating
• reconditioning
• rectifying
• improving
• doctoring
• revising
• remodeling
• editing
• enhancing
• perfecting
• refining
• enriching
• ameliorating
• bettering
• meliorating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of marring

The Trib is withholding Nick’s full name to avoid marring his reputation in the eyes of future employers or others who might run a search on him. — Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life’s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026

There has been no evidence of widespread fraud marring American elections. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026

To prevent a similar war from happening again, Menelaus scarred her face, permanently marring her famous beauty. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026

Lined with live oaks and old-fashioned, busy storefronts, this artsy town on the Gulf of Mexico has no commercial development marring its shoreline. — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 16 June 2026

In Strasbourg, groups of Palace supporters clashed among themselves in a square in the city centre, marring the occasion. — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 28 May 2026

Now, her engagement to the most influential eligible Commander in Gilead has been called off, marring her reputation. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026

Ancient lava fields can be seen as dark lunar maria marring the silvery lunar surface, which themselves are threaded with bright streaks of reflective debris strewn across the surface by violent asteroid strikes. — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2026