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Webster 1913 Edition
Mar
Mar
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Marred
(märd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Marring
.] [OE. ]
marren
, merren
, AS. merran
, myrran
(in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian
, OHG. marrjan
, merran
; cf. D. marren
, meeren
, to moor a ship, Icel. merja
to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan
to offend. Cf. Moor
, Verb.
1.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
I pray you
mar
no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. Shakespeare
But mirth is
marred
, and the good cheer is lost. Dryden.
Ire, envy, and despair
Which
Which
marred
all his borrowed visage. Milton.
2.
To spoil; to ruin.
“It makes us, or it mars us.” “Striving to mend, to mar the subject.” Shak.
Mar
,Noun.
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mar
M`AR
,Verb.
T.
1.
To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision. I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.
Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Lev.19.
2.
To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of. When brewers mar their malt with water.
3.
To injure; to diminish; to interrupt. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
4.
To injure; to deform; to disfigure. Ire, envy and despair
Marr'd all his borrow'd visage.
His visage was so marred more than any man. Is.52.
Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.
[This word is not obsolete in America.]
Definition 2024
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Volapük
Noun
mär (plural märs)
Declension
declension of mär
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mär | märs |
| genitive | mära | märas |
| dative | märe | märes |
| accusative | märi | märis |
| predicative | märu | märus |
| vocative | o mär! | o märs! |