scar
pronunciation
How to pronounce scar in British English:
UK [skɑː(r)]
How to pronounce scar in American English:
US [skɑːr]
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- Noun:
- a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- an indication of damage
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- Verb:
- mark with a scar
Word Origin
- scar (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French escare "scab" (Modern French escarre), from Late Latin eschara, from Greek eskhara "scab formed after a burn," literally "hearth, fireplace," of unknown origin. English sense probably influenced by Middle English skar (late 14c.) "crack, cut, incision," from Old Norse skarð, related to score (n.). Figurative sense attested from 1580s.
- scar (v.)
- 1550s, from scar (n.1). Figurative use from 1590s. Related: Scarred; scarring.
- scar (n.2)
- "bare and broken rocky face of a cliff or mountain," 1670s, earlier "rock, crag" (14c.), perhaps from Old Norse sker "isolated rock or low reef in the sea," from Proto-Germanic *sker- "to cut" (see shear (v.)).
Example
- 1. But will vitamin e really help to improve your scar ?
- 2. Rather , joaquin was born with the scar .
- 3. The scar developed while joaquin was in his mother 's stomach .
- 4. The only sign of her life-saving surgery is a tiny scar on her mouth .
- 5. The dead tumor cells are gradually replaced by scar tissue that shrinks over time .