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Scarring

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.

Scarring

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.

Wiktionary
scarring

n. A scar; a mark. vb. (present participle of scar English)

WordNet
scar

  1. v. mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: mark, pock, pit]

  2. [also: scarring, scarred]

scar

  1. n. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: cicatrix, cicatrice]

  2. an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, mark]

  3. [also: scarring, scarred]

scarring

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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.