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scar
scar is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
- 2noun
A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
- 3transitive verb
To mark with a scar or scars.
- 4intransitive verb
To form a scar.
- 5noun
An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
- 6noun
A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
- 7noun
an indication of damage
- 8noun
a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- 9verb
mark with a scar
"The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
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