'Marred' definitions:
Definition of 'marred'
From: WordNet
adjective
Blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano bench"; "walls marred by graffiti" [syn: marred, scarred]
Definition of 'Marred'
From: GCIDE
- Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (m[aum]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. [1913 Webster]
- I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'marred'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bandy,
- bandy-legged,
- battered,
- beautiless,
- blemished,
- blighted,
- bloated,
- blotted,
- botched,
- bowlegged,
- bruised,
- cacophonic,
- cacophonous,
- checked,
- cicatrized,
- club-footed,
- cracked,
- crazed,
- defaced,
- defective,
- deformed,
- destroyed,
- disfigured,
- distorted,
- dwarfed,
- dysphemistic,
- dysphemized,
- faulty,
- flatfooted,
- flawed,
- grotesque,
- homely,
- ill-made,
- ill-proportioned,
- ill-shaped,
- impaired,
- inelegant,
- keloidal,
- kinked,
- knock-kneed,
- malformed,
- misbegotten,
- misproportioned,
- misshapen,
- monstrous,
- mutilated,
- out of shape,
- pigeon-toed,
- pimpled,
- pimply,
- plain,
- pug-nosed,
- rachitic,
- rickety,
- ruined,
- scabbed,
- scabby,
- scarified,
- scarred,
- short on looks,
- simous,
- snub-nosed,
- split,
- spoiled,
- spoilt,
- stumpy,
- swaybacked,
- talipedic,
- truncated,
- twisted,
- uglified,
- ugly,
- ugly as hell,
- ugly as sin,
- unaesthetic,
- unattractive,
- unbeautiful,
- uncomely,
- unhandsome,
- unlovely,
- unpleasing,
- unpretty,
- unsightly,
- warped,
- wrecked
Words containing 'Marred'
- Mar,
- Marly,
- Marring,
- Mars,
- Bow Mar,
- Crocus of Mars,
- Del Mar,
- Le Mars,
- Mar, NC,
- Mars Hill,
- Mars Hill, ME,
- Mars brown,
- Mars, PA,
- San Mar,
- Terra Mar,
- Vitriol of Mars,
- defaced marred,
- Boca Del Mar,
- Bow Mar, CO,
- Del Mar Heights,
- Del Mar, CA,
- Le Mars, IA,
- Mar-Mac,
- Mars Hill, NC,
- Rio del Mar,
- San Mar, MD,
- Terra Mar, FL,
- mar-text,
- vina del mar,
- Boca Del Mar, FL,
- Chasse-mar'ee,
- Del Mar Heights, TX,
- Mar-Mac, NC,
- Mars Hill-Blaine,
- Mars Hill-Blaine, ME,
- Rio del Mar, CA