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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

M`AR, v.t. [L. marceo.]
1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision.
I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.
Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus 19.
2. To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of.
When brewers mar their malt with water.
3. To injure; to diminish; to interrupt.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
4. To injure; to deform; to disfigure.
Ire, envy and despair
Marr'd all his borrow'd visage.
His visage was so marred more than any man. Isaiah 52.
Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.
[This word is not obsolete in America.]
MAR, in nightmar. [See Nightmar.]
M`AR, n. An injury.
1. A lake. [See Mere.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar]
2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v
1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate]
2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation March

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb (marred; marring) Etymology: Middle English marren, from Old English mierran to obstruct, waste; akin to Old High German merren to obstruct Date: before 12th century 1. to detract from the perfection or wholeness of ; spoil 2. archaic a. to inflict serious bodily harm on b. destroy Synonyms: see injure II. noun Date: 1551 something that mars ; blemish III. abbreviation maritime

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (marred, marring) 1 ruin. 2 impair the perfection of; spoil; disfigure. Etymology: OE merran hinder

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Maa Maa, n. [See New a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mew Mew, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h, Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mar Mar, n. A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mar 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mars, marring, marred) To mar something means to spoil or damage it. A number of problems marred the smooth running of this event... VERB: V n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mar: "To mar" means "to destroy," "to disfigure," "to damage." Job 30:13, "They mar my path" (the Revised Version margin "they break up"); Na 2:2, "and destroyed their vine" (the King James Version "and marred their vine"); compare Le 19:27; 2Ki 3:19; Isa 52:14; Jer 13:9.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Injure, spoil, ruin, hurt, damage, harm, impair. 2. Deface, deform, disfigure, spoil, maim.

Moby Thesaurus

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