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scar

noun as in blemish from previous injury or illness

verb as in mark, hurt

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Example Sentences

A scar marks her right wrist where the bullet hit her eight months ago.

He lifted his t-shirt and showed us a long scar, running from sternum to waistband.

[points to above the knee] The scar looks like a shark bite.

Prinze loves Star Wars and has a big scar on his chin to prove it.

One runner in Houston now has a permanent, hoof-shaped scar in the center of his forehead.

He has an ugly scar—a knife-cut—across the back of one hand; you can't mistake him if you get sight of him.

There was a scar in the shape of a cross on the man's swarthy cheek, and it glowed redly with the anger that filled him.

He was a dark, somber looking man with a particularly ugly scar on his chin.

Anyhow, when McKibben saw him after the team was stopped, there was that cross-shaped scar, plain as anything.

Brutus was getting well, but there would always be a scar on his shoulder, where the sharp-pointed shrub had entered the flesh.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scar, such as: blister, crater, defect, discoloration, disfigurement, and flaw.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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