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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.

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Verb group 6

Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Score 84% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Score 84% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Deface 76% connected

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Disfigure 76% connected

To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Symptom 76% connected

Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease…

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Narrower term 4

Callus 76% connected

Same as Callosity

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Keloid 76% connected

Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin.

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Pockmark 76% connected

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

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Vaccination 76% connected

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

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Cicatrize 76% connected

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh.

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Pockmark 76% connected

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

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Derivationally related 4

Grate 74% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Grate 74% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Scratch 74% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Scratch 74% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Entails 1

Incise 72% connected

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

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Synonym 7

Cicatrice 92% connected

A cicatrix.

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Cicatrix 92% connected

The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts an…

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Mark 92% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pit 92% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Pock 92% connected

A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scrape 92% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scratch 92% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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