What does "mar" mean?
Mar: To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. Milton.
Additional senses
- 2.To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." Shak.
- 3.A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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