scar

Definition

  • noun: a mark that is left on your skin after a wound heals
  • noun: an isolated or protruding rock
  • noun: a mark left (as in the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
  • verb: to mark (something) with a scar
  • verb: to mark with a scar
  • synonyms: cicatrix, blemish, disfigurement

Examples

  • Divorce can 'scar' a child for life. = Divorce can leave a child 'scarred for life'.

  • The divorce left her with deep emotional 'scars'.

  • His arm was badly 'scarred' after the accident.

Movie quotes

  • (..) absent from the room... But my methods are not. You can't mean Dr. Watson... Surely? So it doesn't seem fair. Right ... The surgury would've left scars. Only four of them have the hair line to hide them. The Ambassador that you've replaced With Rene, Is he still alive? (..)
    2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
  • (..) a white soapy discharge crept into the river. May I see your hand, please? What is this? This is a chemical burn. It will hurt more than any burn and it will leave a scar. Meditation worked for cancer, it could work now. - Don't shut the pain out. - Oh, God! (..)
    1999 Fight Club
  • (..) - That's good. No. That's because there is no cartilage in your knee, and not much of any use in your elbows or your shoulders. Between that and the scar tissue on your kidneys, the residual concussive damage to your brain tissue and the general scarred-over quality of your body, (..)
    2012 The Dark Knight Rises