mar

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make imperfect

   Nothing marred their beauty.

2. 2
   verb

   To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

   […] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:.

3. 3
   noun

   A blemish.

   For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.

4. 4
   noun

   a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”),...

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