Meaning of MAR
Pronunciation: | | mâr
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- [n] the month following February and preceding April
- [v] destroy, as of a limb
- [v] make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
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| Synonyms: | | deflower, impair, March, mutilate, spoil, vitiate |
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| See Also: | | Annunciation, Annunciation Day, blemish, cloud, corrupt, damage, deface, defile, disfigure, force out, gouge, Gregorian calendar, Gregorian calendar month, Lady Day, maim, March 19, March 2, March 25, mid-March, New Style, Saint Joseph, spring, springtime, St Joseph, sully, taint, Texas Independence Day | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mar\, n.
A small lake. See {Mere}. [Prov. Eng.]
\Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m["a]rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Marring}.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in
comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian,
OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship,
Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend.
Cf. {Moor}, v.]
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. --Shak.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
--Dryden.
Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed
visage. --Milton.
2. To spoil; to ruin. ``It makes us, or it mars us.''
``Striving to mend, to mar the subject.'' --Shak.
\Mar\, n.
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like;
a disfigurement.
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| Related Terms: | | be all thumbs, blemish, blight, blot, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bruise, bumble, bungle, butcher, check, cicatrize, commit a gaffe, crack, craze, damage, deface, deform, destroy, disfigure, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, faux pas, flaw, flounder, fumble, harm, hurt, impair, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, lumber, miscue, misshape, muddle, muff, murder, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, play havoc with, prejudice, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, scratch, slip, split, spoil, stain, stumble, taint, tarnish, trip, truncate, twist, uglify, vitiate, warp, wreck |
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