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Answer for the clue "Permanently marking ", 8 letters:
scarring

Word definitions for scarring in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
See scar

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A scar; a mark. vb. (present participle of scar English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scar \Scar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scarred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scarring .] To mark with a scar or scars. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow. --Shak. His cheeks were deeply scarred. --Macaulay.

Usage examples of scarring.

Vague suggestions of architecture and biology burnt onto the paper, scarring it.

At first the trail was no more than a scarring in the crusty surface of the plain, the cuts of hooves and the long ridges of the wagon paths fading in the ever-present cold wind.