Meaning of Scar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
2. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
3. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
4. A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
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5. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
6. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
7. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.

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Examples

“Thus, it is wise to avoid cultivating an emotional scar, as it can play havoc with your happiness and success.”

“Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.”

“But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others,” and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.”

“There is a real scar on the landscape, but it reminds me exactly of scenes I photographed from the construction of High Speed 1 in Kent and Essex, and of the Norton Bridge flyover in Staffordshire. Scars heal, and the replanting and rewilding that Penny had shown me at Cubbington display the early stages.”

“O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, / ⁠And thinner, clearer, farther going! / O sweet and far from cliff and scar / ⁠The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!”

“All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another. “Hi!” it said. “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.”

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