mar
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Mar
n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn:
{March}, {Mar}]
2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something
(especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn:
{blemish}, {defect}, {mar}]
v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {mar},
{impair}, {spoil}, {deflower}, {vitiate}]
2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn:
{mutilate}, {mar}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m[aum]rd); 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}, v.]
1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or
defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
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I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs
in their barks. --Shak.
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But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
--Dryden.
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Ire, envy, and despair
Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton.
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2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving
to mend, to mar the subject." --Shak.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zool.)
A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus});
called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}.
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from
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
Mar-Mac, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000): 3004
Housing Units (2000): 1485
Land area (2000): 4.381212 sq. miles (11.347287 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.027292 sq. miles (0.070687 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.408504 sq. miles (11.417974 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41540
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.331502 N, 78.046751 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mar-Mac, NC
Mar-Mac
Mar, NC
Mar
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "mar":
be all thumbs, blemish, blight, blot, blunder, blunder away,
blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bruise,
bumble, bungle, butcher, check, cicatrize, commit a gaffe, crack,
craze, damage, deface, deform, destroy, disfigure, disproportion,
distort, dysphemize, faux pas, flaw, flounder, fumble, harm, hurt,
impair, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell,
look something terrible, lumber, miscue, misshape, muddle, muff,
murder, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, play havoc with,
prejudice, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, scratch, slip, split, spoil,
stain, stumble, taint, tarnish, trip, truncate, twist, uglify,
vitiate, warp, wreck
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