Definition of Scar

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Definition of Scar

Scar

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.

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.

To mark with a scar or scars.

To form a scar.

An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.

A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

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Scar Quotations

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
Rosa Parks

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
Carol Burnett

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
Hulk Hogan

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
Rupert Murdoch

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
Carly Simon

Scar Translations

scar in Dutch is wondteken, litteken
scar in Finnish is arpi
scar in French is cicatrice, stigmate
scar in German is Narbe
scar in Italian is strato erboso
scar in Norwegian is arr
scar in Portuguese is cicatriz
scar in Spanish is cicatriz

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