• (GA) enPR: skär, IPA: /skɑɹ/
• (RP) IPA: /skɑː(ɹ)/

scar (plural scars)

1. A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
2. (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
3. Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
   • 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)

     Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.

• cicatrice, cicatrix

• fire scar
• scar tissue

• French: cicatrice, balafre
• German: Narbe
• Italian: cicatrice
• Portuguese: cicatriz
• Russian: шрам
• Spanish: cicatriz, alforza

• French: cicatrice
• Italian: cicatrice
• Spanish: cicatriz

scar (scars, present participle scarring; past and past participle scarred)

1. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.

2. (intransitive) To form a scar.
3. (transitive, figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.

   Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

• French: cicatriser
• Portuguese: deixar cicatriz
• Spanish: cicatrizarse

• Portuguese: cicatrizar

• Portuguese: marcar

scar (plural scars)

1. A cliff or rock outcrop.
2. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
3. A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.

scar (plural scars)

1. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).