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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. transitive verb. To mark with a scar or scars.
4. intransitive verb. To form a scar.
5. noun. An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
6. noun. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
7. noun. an indication of damage

   Synonyms: mark, scrape, scratch

8. noun. a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue

   Synonyms: cicatrice, cicatrix

9. verb. mark with a scar

   "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"

   Synonyms: mark, pit, pock

Synonyms

mark, scrape, scratch, cicatrice, cicatrix, pit, pock

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in scar:

arcs, cars, srac

Common word forms

scars, scared, scarer, scares, scaring, scarred, scarrer, scarless, scarring

Words from these letters

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