as in defect
something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing
the scars left by carelessly scratching the car door with one's keys
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as in to bruise
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Recent Examples of scar
Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Those same technologies will be just as important in peacetime, helping rebuild a country that will long be scarred by mines.
—David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Others carried scars and marks on their forearms from dialysis treatments for kidney disease, which can result from cumulative damage to fragile blood vessels in the kidney from living with elevated blood glucose levels.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Spiritual journeys may be humiliating, or even psychologically scarring, but there is nothing heroic about staying in the house.
—Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Those same technologies will be just as important in peacetime, helping rebuild a country that will long be scarred by mines.
—David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
Shapiro gave an emotional public statement Tuesday alongside his wife, state First Lady Lori Shapiro, explaining that the attack has left lasting scars on his family.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
Others carried scars and marks on their forearms from dialysis treatments for kidney disease, which can result from cumulative damage to fragile blood vessels in the kidney from living with elevated blood glucose levels.
—Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scar
Verb
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Photos of her black eye, which were previously entered into evidence, show a massive purple, bordering on black, bruise that extends from her eyelid to the top of her left cheekbone.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
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The potatoes will have delicate skin that can be easily bruised or scratched, so handle them with care.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Season 1 ended with heroes Brian and Ellen getting their hands bloodied while trying to run away together.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Oct. 2025
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Photos of the man shared with IndyStar show him on a hospital bed, bloodied, with a neck brace and a large gash on the left side of his face.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
6 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Additional fighting between troops and militants apparently broke out in a second area in Pakistan’s Orakzai district to the north, where Islamabad said six Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were killed and two security officials were wounded.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The mayor's appearance came a day after a shooting near the CityBird restaurant on Fountain Square that wounded two people, prompting discussions about ongoing violence in Cincinnati's urban core.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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He’s physically torn between love and death, marveling at the soul-crushing power of both.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Sure, the offense racked up yardage, but the Niners were fooled on critical plays on offense and were gashed on defense.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Led by quarterback Jayden Maiava and running back King Miller, USC’s offense gashed Michigan (4-2, 2-1) for 489 yards while the USC defense bottled up Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, and Gordon Behind Bars) in which cooks and waiters endure lacerating abuse by the chef, who is ostensibly there to help a restaurant improve its operations (but really to provide entertainment via humiliation).—
Laurie Woolever,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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The songs are at times over-the-top, at others lacerating in their introspection about everything from the anxiety of aging to the anguished choice to terminate a pregnancy.—
Adam Bradley Luis Alberto Rodriguez Carlos Nazario,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Earlier this year, a New Jersey man who was visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison.—
Tabitha Parent,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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The animatronic Death Eater crouching on a bookshelf casts a spell, then Dolores Umbridge appears on a screen, then a rhinoceros-like Erumpent tries to gore the riders with its horn.—
Bianca Bosker,
The Atlantic,
14 Sep. 2025
Verb
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An artillery round fired over Interstate 5 at Sunday’s live-fire demonstration at Camp Pendleton prematurely detonated, striking and damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle that was part of Vice President JD Vance’s detail, the CHP said Sunday.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Oct. 2025
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Thermal runaway, or self-heating, can occur without warning in lithium batteries as a result of various factors, including if the battery is damaged, overheated, exposed to water, overcharged or improperly packed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Scar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scar. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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