Scar has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun
· Verb
Noun
1
a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
"She carefully removed her wedding ring to check if the scar from her childhood burn would finally fade."
2
an indication of damage
"The rust on the car door is a scar from the collision last year."
3
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
"The diver admired how the scar used its beak to scrape algae off the coral reef before swimming away."
5
A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Verb
1
mark with a scar
"The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
2
To mark the skin permanently.
"The old knife cut left a deep scar across his forearm that never faded away."
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