Mar
verb
To damage or spoil the quality or appearance of something.
The coffee stain marred the front of her white shirt.
Often appears as...
- mar the surface
- mar the beauty
verb
To detract from the perfection or wholeness of something.
A few scratches marred the polished wooden floor.
Often appears as...
- mar the completeness
- mar the unity
noun
A blemish or mark that spoils something.
The paper had many mars which made it look less presentable.
Often appears as...
- surface mar
- visible mar
verb
To damage or spoil the quality or appearance of something.
The coffee stain marred the front of her white shirt.
Often appears as...
- mar the surface
- mar the beauty
verb
To detract from the perfection or wholeness of something.
A few scratches marred the polished wooden floor.
Often appears as...
- mar the completeness
- mar the unity
noun
A blemish or mark that spoils something.
The paper had many mars which made it look less presentable.
Often appears as...
- surface mar
- visible mar
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Impact
Mar often refers to tangible damage that affects an object's appearance or function.
The carved initials marred the antique desk.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Change
It suggests a change for the worse, impacting something that was previously unspoiled or perfect.
Graffiti marred the walls of the new school building.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Differences
'Mar' indicates a smaller degree of damage compared to words like 'destroy' or 'demolish'.
A typo marred his otherwise flawless report.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Impact
Mar often refers to tangible damage that affects an object's appearance or function.
The carved initials marred the antique desk.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Change
It suggests a change for the worse, impacting something that was previously unspoiled or perfect.
Graffiti marred the walls of the new school building.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Differences
'Mar' indicates a smaller degree of damage compared to words like 'destroy' or 'demolish'.
A typo marred his otherwise flawless report.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Impact
Mar often refers to tangible damage that affects an object's appearance or function.
The carved initials marred the antique desk.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Change
It suggests a change for the worse, impacting something that was previously unspoiled or perfect.
Graffiti marred the walls of the new school building.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Differences
'Mar' indicates a smaller degree of damage compared to words like 'destroy' or 'demolish'.
A typo marred his otherwise flawless report.
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Why we get mad -- and...
We feel it to the very end. In fact, anger has been with us at some of the worst moments of our lives. It's a natural and expected part of our grief. But it's also been with us in some of the best moments of our lives, with those special occasions like weddings and vacations often marred by these everyday frustrations --
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Democracy is not a...
them the truth may not always be shown on television but it's being painted on the walls tweeted shared when an injustice is done it is filmed and uploaded when an innocent is hurt or killed their memory is honored across all the downtown walls now this is on Mar a graffiti artist who is in our film
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The Wonders of Urban...
mostly white scientists in st louis have already found noteworthy differences in how wildlife thrive in these two halves of the city for example researchers at fontbonne university have found in recent years that raccoons on either side of the del mar divide are genetically distinct populations in
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Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
would just fly over the valley I was trying to get an interesting angle so I had Joo marred up the rope and I was hanging off the rope and I was telling this guy hey okay run off the end and then he'd run off the end and I would hold on for dear life and I got got
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The Triumph and Tragedy...
determine their own future but that moment of triumph was marred by one of the most violent forced migrations in human history known simply as partition lines drawn on a world map were the catalyst for the massacre of more than one million people and forced an
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Listening to shame -...
how he falls and stumbles the credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat but when he's in the arena at best he wins and at worst he loses but when he fails when he loses he does so daring
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Listening to shame PIPE...
and how he falls and stumbles. The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat. But when he's in the arena, at best, he wins, and at worst, he loses, but when he fails, when he loses,
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OR Finalist PIPE National...
Burnham discovered it in banking but mar 22 is fascinated just settlers had matches into our the Nazca life another amazingness these lines in the middle of are one of the world's greatest mysteries we're begin for support
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Susan Lim: Transplant...
Pregnancies are meant to be happy and fulfilling moments in any woman's life. But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts --
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Leopard Hunts an Impala...
But her success is marred by tragedy. She has only one surviving heir.
Video examples
Why we get mad -- and...
We feel it to the very end. In fact, anger has been with us at some of the worst moments of our lives. It's a natural and expected part of our grief. But it's also been with us in some of the best moments of our lives, with those special occasions like weddings and vacations often marred by these everyday frustrations --
Video examples
Democracy is not a...
them the truth may not always be shown on television but it's being painted on the walls tweeted shared when an injustice is done it is filmed and uploaded when an innocent is hurt or killed their memory is honored across all the downtown walls now this is on Mar a graffiti artist who is in our film
Video examples
The Wonders of Urban...
mostly white scientists in st louis have already found noteworthy differences in how wildlife thrive in these two halves of the city for example researchers at fontbonne university have found in recent years that raccoons on either side of the del mar divide are genetically distinct populations in
Video examples
Photographer Jimmy Chin:...
would just fly over the valley I was trying to get an interesting angle so I had Joo marred up the rope and I was hanging off the rope and I was telling this guy hey okay run off the end and then he'd run off the end and I would hold on for dear life and I got got
Video examples
The Triumph and Tragedy...
determine their own future but that moment of triumph was marred by one of the most violent forced migrations in human history known simply as partition lines drawn on a world map were the catalyst for the massacre of more than one million people and forced an
Video examples
Listening to shame -...
how he falls and stumbles the credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat but when he's in the arena at best he wins and at worst he loses but when he fails when he loses he does so daring
Video examples
Listening to shame PIPE...
and how he falls and stumbles. The credit goes to the man in the arena whose face is marred with dust and blood and sweat. But when he's in the arena, at best, he wins, and at worst, he loses, but when he fails, when he loses,
Video examples
OR Finalist PIPE National...
Burnham discovered it in banking but mar 22 is fascinated just settlers had matches into our the Nazca life another amazingness these lines in the middle of are one of the world's greatest mysteries we're begin for support
Video examples
Susan Lim: Transplant...
Pregnancies are meant to be happy and fulfilling moments in any woman's life. But my joyful period was marred by solemn and morbid thoughts --
Video examples
Leopard Hunts an Impala...
But her success is marred by tragedy. She has only one surviving heir.
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Nick Nolte
American Actor
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
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Joan Didion
American Author
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
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Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
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Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
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Shane Carruth
American Writer
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
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Frank-Walter Steinmeier
German Politician
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.
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Theodore Roosevelt
American President
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Victor Hugo
French Author
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
Quote examples
Nick Nolte
American Actor
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
Quote examples
Joan Didion
American Author
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
Quote examples
Ernest Hemingway
American Novelist
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Quote examples
Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Quote examples
Alice Walker
American Author
I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.
Quote examples
Shane Carruth
American Writer
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
Quote examples
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
German Politician
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.
Quote examples
Theodore Roosevelt
American President
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Quote examples
Victor Hugo
French Author
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Quote examples
William Shakespeare
English Playwright
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
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