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Marring

Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (m["a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Marring.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian, OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend. Cf. Moor, v.]

  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.
    --Shak.

    But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
    --Dryden.

    Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage.
    --Milton.

  2. To spoil; to ruin. ``It makes us, or it mars us.'' ``Striving to mend, to mar the subject.''
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
marring

n. Something that mars or spoils; a blemish. vb. (present participle of mar English)

WordNet
mar

  1. v. make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate]

  2. destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate]

  3. [also: marring, marred]

marring

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Usage examples of "marring".

He cupped her cheek with his hand, his thumb brushing the thin scarlet scratch marring her throat.

A service path had been carved into the cliffs on both sides, cheaper than a bridge, marring the natural beauty but making the canyon bottom accessible to tractors.

Underfoot the ice is white, with tiny broken air bubbles marring the surface, like minuscule crater rings.

On some faces lingered the almost obliterated scars of strife, the marrings of hopeless loss, the fading shadows of sorrows that had seemed inconsolable: the aurora of the great morning had not yet quite melted them away.