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Mar   /mɑr/   Listen
verb
Mar  v. t.  (past & past part. marred; pres. part. marring)  
1.
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." "But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost." "Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage."
2.
To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject."


noun
Mar  n.  A small lake. See Mere. (Prov. Eng.)


Mar  n.  A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... Bangor, overawing the police, and there had been much jocularity. It was all done in excellent taste. Had it not been for the death of a coastguard through heart failure, there would have been nothing to mar the jolly entertainment.... ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine
... for the advancement of things, and would not be idly disseminated—if no antagonistic influence wrought against her. He had found himself reflecting that, after all was said, the marriage of such a girl had a sort of parallel in that of some young royal creature, whose union might make or mar things, which must be considered. The man who must inevitably strongly colour her whole being, and vitally mark her life, would, in a sense, lay his hand upon the lever also. If he brought sorrow and disorder with him, the lever would not move steadily. Fortunes such as his grow rapidly, and he ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... simplicity and openness to be observed and felt that evening was a comforting indication of freedom from party spirit, and those vain disputations which in so many instances keep Christians at a distance, and mar their individual peace as ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley
... quite as possible to use too few inserts, especially leaders, as it is to use so few words in them as to mar their meaning. Young writers are often more eager to follow the advice of their mentors than they are bold to use their own common-sense; and having had the importance of brevity well pounded in, they produce scripts with the double fault of not having enough action to make the plot clear, ...
— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
... superior airs of the young woman elated with the greatness of her knowledge, and a certain rudeness and vehemence of statement not seen later. It is a defect that is not very prominent, but one that is apparent enough to mar some of the best of these pages. It was one she never wholly outgrew, though in her novels her large information was usually so managed and subordinated as to give little ...
— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke


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