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

Word definitions for scarring in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: mark , pock , pit ] [also: scarring , scarred ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scarring \Scar"ring\, n. A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. --Tyndall.

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

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.