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Mar   /mɑr/   Listen
verb
Mar  v. t.  (past & past part. marred; pres. part. marring)  
1.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. "I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks." "But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost." "Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage."
2.
To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject."


noun
Mar  n.  A small lake. See Mere. (Prov. Eng.)


Mar  n.  A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.





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"Mar" Quotes from Famous Books



... groups of our savage forbears, government has remained a monster. To-day, the inertia-crushed mass has less laughter in it than ever before. In spite of man's mastery of matter, human suffering and misery and degradation mar the ...
— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London
... which, though it may not be royal, is something better, appears in a letter to the queen, which has been preserved in the appendix to Sir David Dalrymple's collections. It is without date, but written when in Scotland, to quiet the queen's suspicions, that the Earl of Mar, who had the care of Prince Henry, and whom she wished to take out of his hands, had insinuated to the king that her majesty was strongly disposed to any "popish or Spanish course." This letter confirms the representation ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... and robbing nature of some of her romance—could not do much to damage the grandeur of that impressive spot. His axe only chipped a little of the surface and made the footing secure. It could not mar the beauty of the picturesque surroundings, or dim the sun's glitter on the ice-pinnacles, or taint the purity of these delicate blue depths into which Emma and Nita gazed for the first time with admiration and surprise while they listened ...
— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne
... nature of our feelings does prevent us from extending our sympathies to those whom we have not seen in the flesh. It should not be so, and would not with one who had nurtured his heart with the proper care. And we are prone to permit an evil worse than that to canker our regards and to foster and to mar our solicitudes. Those who are in high station strike us more by their joys and sorrows than do the poor and lowly. Were some young duke's wife, wedded but the other day, to die, all England would put on some show of mourning,—nay, would feel some true gleam of pity; but nobody cares ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... I wish a milder word would do; I am no angel, and my corruption rises against it. My poor father died last week: Arthur was vexed to hear of it, because he saw that I was shocked and grieved, and he feared the circumstance would mar his comfort. When I spoke of ordering my mourning, he exclaimed,—'Oh, I hate black! But, however, I suppose you must wear it awhile, for form's sake; but I hope, Helen, you won't think it your bounden duty to compose your face and manners into conformity with your funereal ...
— The Tenant of Wildfell Hall • Anne Bronte


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