mar

verbnounnounnounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//mɑː(ɹ)//
United States//mɑɹ//
United States/[mɑɹ]/
United States/[mɑ˞]/

To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

verb

1
To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
[…] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:
Prospero: […]huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.
Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.
Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).

noun

1
A blemish.
For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.

noun

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Variant of mereAlternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).

Etymology

Variant of mere.

noun

1
Variant of mayor and mairobsoleteAlternative form of mayor and mair.

Etymology

See mayor.

Forms

plural: mars
past tense: marred
past participle: marred
present participle: marring
third person singular: mars

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