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transitive. To mark with a scar; to disfigure by inflicting a wound.
To mark as with a seam. Cf. seam, v.2
transitive. transferred (? Associated with scar, n.2) To cover with scars, to scar.
transitive. To mark with scars; to scar. Also figurative.