MAR (marred, marring)

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Irregular inflected forms: marred    , marring   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mar mean? 

• MAR (noun)
  The noun MAR has 2 senses:

1. the month following February and preceding April

2. a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

  Familiarity information: MAR used as a noun is rare.

• MAR (verb)
  The verb MAR has 2 senses:

1. make imperfect

2. destroy or injure severely

  Familiarity information: MAR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following February and preceding April

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Mar; March

Hypernyms ("Mar" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Mar"):

March 19; Saint Joseph; St Joseph (a Christian holy day)

March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)

mid-March (the middle part of March)

March 2; Texas Independence Day (Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836)

Annunciation; Annunciation Day; Lady Day; March 25 (a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)

Holonyms ("Mar" is a part of...):

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blemish; defect; mar

Context example:

a facial blemish

Hypernyms ("mar" is a kind of...):

appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mar"):

chatter mark (a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece)

blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)

milium; whitehead (a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland)

verruca; wart ((pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus)

stigma (a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease)

blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot (a blemish made by dirt)

burn; burn mark (a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body))

mark; scar; scrape; scratch (an indication of damage)

mole (a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin)

dent; ding; gouge; nick (an impression in a surface (as made by a blow))

crack (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts)

check; chip (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something)

birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)

Derivation:

mar (make imperfect)

• MAR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they mar    ... he / she / it mars   
Past simple: marred   
Past participle: marred   
-ing form: marring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make imperfect

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

deflower; impair; mar; spoil; vitiate

Context example:

nothing marred her beauty

Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):

cloud; corrupt; defile; sully; taint (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon)

blemish; deface; disfigure (mar or spoil the appearance of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroy or injure severely

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

mar; mutilate

Context example:

mutilated bodies

Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):

maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):

force out; gouge (force with the thumb)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

During the rest of that day there was no other adventure to mar the peace of their journey.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

People’s sleep can be marred, in turn affecting their health.

(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)

Mars, your guardian planet, will be very friendly to Mercury in Aquarius at the time of the new moon on January 24, so you may hear good news.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mars has water vapor and plenty of frozen water, but the presence of liquid water on the neighboring planet, a necessity for all known life, has not been confirmed.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

Mars today has neither standing water nor volcanic activity.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

Such was a sample of the sudden janglings which marred the peace of that little class.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mars has received its newest robotic resident.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Mars loses its hydrogen by thermal escape at the top of the atmosphere.

(Mars Mission Sheds Light on Habitability of Distant Planets, NASA)

Mars may have had Saturn-like rings in the past and may have them again, a new study suggests.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

Mars's rocky, subterranean layer once, for some hundreds of millions of years, had enough water and reductants to support some of the same kinds of microbial communities seen on Earth.

(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)