单词 | scarred |
释义 | scarredadj. 1. Of a human or animal body or its parts: Bearing scars or traces of wounds or sores. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar scotched?c1425 scarredc1440 scarry1653 scar-clad1792 scar-seamed1813 sabre-cutc1820 needle-scarred1854 cicatricular1875 c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 35 Ȝaa, and with schath of skelpys yll scarred. 1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth 176 I have seen the scarred hero of many battles cry like a child when called upon to have a tooth extracted. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 22 Especial attention was directed to the exclusion of cases of scarred kidneys, of which there were many. 2. transferred. Of inanimate objects: Bearing traces of injury, weathering, or the like. Often of rocks, etc.: Broken as by a convulsion of nature. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [adjective] > blemished wemmed1382 blemishedc1440 scarreda1593 flawful1881 a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Lucan First Bk. (1600) i. C j Headles darts, olde swords With vgly teeth of blacke rust fouly scarr'd. 1817 P. B. Shelley Mont Blanc iii, in Hist. Six Weeks' Tour 179 How hideously Its shapes are heaped around! rude, bare, and high, Ghastly, and scarred, and riven. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly III. ii. 29 In the sheer precipices..scarred with ruddy rocks and sunless woods. 3. Botany. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [adjective] > marked with remains of leaves scarred1793 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. D5 Cicatrisatus truncus s. caulis, a scarred stem. Marked with the remains of leaves that have fallen off. 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) iii. 468. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.c1440 |
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