## Meanings
1. A permanent mark left on the skin after a wound has healed.
2. A lasting emotional effect caused by a painful experience.
3. To leave a permanent mark on the skin.
4. To affect someone deeply and painfully for a long time.

## Examples
- He still has a scar on his knee from the accident.
- The war left deep scars on everyone who survived it.
- The burn scarred her arm for life.
- Seeing the crash scarred him for life.

## Synonyms
- cicatrice
- cicatrix

## Derived Forms
- battle-scarred
- labelscar
- nonscarring
- preston-under-scar
- scarface
- scarless
- scarlike
- scarproof
- scarrer
- scarringly
- scarry

## Related Forms
- birthmark

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: scar
- Root: escare
- Root: eschara
- Root: ἐσχάρα
- Root: skar
- Root: skarð
- Root: *skardaz

## Etymology
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify.

## AI Etymology
Scar comes from Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ἐσχάρα (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English sċeard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard. Displaced native Old English dolg, dolgswæþ, and wundswaþu (“scar”). Not related to scarify. Modern senses include a permanent mark left on the skin after a wound has healed. and a lasting emotional effect caused by a painful experience.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as battle-scarred, labelscar, nonscarring, preston-under-scar, scarface, and scarless and related forms such as birthmark.

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