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Mar

Mar Meaning & Definition
Mar Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mar?

[n] the month following February and preceding April
[v] destroy, as of a limb
[v] make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mar: deflower | impair | March | mutilate | spoil | vitiate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mar: 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

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

Mar In Webster's Dictionary

\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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