scar

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scar / skär/ • n. a mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not healed quite completely and fibrous connective tissue has developed: a faint scar ran the length of his left cheek. ∎  fig. a lasting effect of grief, fear, or other emotion left on a person's character by a traumatic experience: the attack has left mental scars on Terry and his family. ∎  a mark left on something following damage of some kind: Max could see scars of the blast. ∎  a mark left at the point of separation of a leaf, frond, or other part from a plant.• v. (scarred, scar·ring) [tr.] (often be scarred) mark with a scar or scars: he is likely to be scarred for life after injuries to his face, arms, and legs [as adj. , in comb.] (-scarred) battle-scarred troops. ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Old French escharre, via late Latin from Greek eskhara ‘scab.’

scar

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scar Steep, cliff-like slope of bare rock, developed in the near-horizontally bedded Carboniferous limestone of the Yorkshire Dales, England. The steepest and highest scars are normally associated with the outcrop of the purest and most massively bedded limestone. Often a scree is formed at the base.

scar

views updated May 18 2018

scar A steep, cliff-like slope of bare rock, developed in the near-horizontally bedded Carboniferous limestone of the Yorkshire Dales, England. The steepest and highest scars are normally associated with the outcrop of the purest and most massively bedded limestone. Often a scree is formed at the base.

scar

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scar1 †rock, crag XIV; precipice XIV; precipice XVII; sunken rock XVIII. ME. skerre, scarre, — ON. sker low reef, SKERRY.

scar

views updated Jun 11 2018

scar n. a permanent mark left after wound healing. hypertrophic s. an abnormal raised scar that tends to settle after a year or so, as distinct from a keloid, which is not only permanent but tends to extend beyond the original wound.

scar

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scar2 trace of a healed wound. XIV. Aphetic — OF. esc(h)arre, eschare — late L. eschara scab — Gr. eskhárā hearth, brazier, scab.
Hence vb. XVI.

SCAR

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SCAR (skɑː) Scientific (or Special) Committee on Antarctic Research