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Definition of Scar

Scar

  1. 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. 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. To mark with a scar or scars.
  4. To form a scar.
  5. An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
  6. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.

Scar Quotations

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

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

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

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

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews
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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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