scar
A mark that stays on your skin after a cut, burn, or other injury has healed.
A permanent mark left on the skin or other body tissue after a cut, burn, or other injury has healed.
To make a mark that stays on skin after hurting it.
To leave a permanent mark on the skin or other body tissue after causing an injury.
A strong bad feeling that stays for a long time because of a very sad or scary event.
A lasting emotional or mental effect left by a painful, shocking, or damaging experience.
To hurt someone’s mind or feelings in a way that stays for a very long time.
To cause someone to have lasting emotional or mental harm because of a painful, shocking, or damaging experience.
An ugly mark or damaged area on a place or thing that stays for a long time.
An ugly or noticeable mark or area of damage on a place, object, or the natural environment, especially one that remains for a long time.
- Base: scar
- Plural: scars
- Base: scar
- 3rd Person Singular: scars
- Present Participle: scarring
- Past: scarred
- Irregular present participle: scarring Verb
- Irregular past: scarred Verb
be scarred for life
1be permanently affected by something
To be hurt in body or mind in a way that will never completely go away.
- He is scarred for life after the house fire.
- She says she is scarred for life by what happened to her as a child.
emotional scars
1long-lasting emotional pain
Strong bad feelings that stay for a long time because of something painful that happened before.
- The war left emotional scars on the whole community.
- Therapy helped her deal with her emotional scars.
scar someone for life
1cause permanent damage to someone
To hurt someone so badly, in body or mind, that the effect stays for their whole life.
- The accident scarred him for life, and he never drove again.
- Being bullied at school scarred her for life.
scar tissue
1fibrous tissue formed after injury
The thick skin or body tissue that grows when a bad cut or injury heals.
- There is a lot of scar tissue around his old knee injury.
- The doctor said the pain is caused by scar tissue pressing on a nerve.