Synonyms of the word

scar

• n. A permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
• n. (by extension) A permanent effect on someone’s mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
• v. (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
• v. (intransitive) To form a scar.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
• n. A cliff.
• n. A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
• n. A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.

blemish

• n. A small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot.
• n. A moral defect; a character flaw.
• v. To spoil the appearance of.
• v. To tarnish (reputation, character, etc.); to defame.

cicatrice

• n. (medicine) a scar.

cicatrix

• n. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).

deface

• v. To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner.
• v. To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value.
• v. (heraldry, flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it.

defect

• n. A fault or malfunction.
• n. The quantity or amount by which anything falls short.
• n. (mathematics) A part by which a figure or quantity is wanting or deficient.
• v. (intransitive) To abandon or turn against; to cease or change one's loyalty, especially from a military…
• v. (military) To desert one's army, to flee from combat.
• v. (military) To join the enemy army.
• v. (law) To flee one's country and seek asylum.

disfigure

• v. Change the appearance of something/someone to the negative.

mar

• v. To spoil, to damage.
• n. A blemish.
• n. A small lake.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

pit

• n. A hole in the ground.
• n. (motor racing) An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
• n. (music) A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion…
• n. A mine.
• n. (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance…
• n. (trading) A trading pit.
• n. (in the plural, with the, idiomatic, slang) Something particularly unpleasant.
• n. The bottom part of.
• n. (colloquial) Armpit.
• n. (aviation) A luggage hold.
• n. (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
• n. The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
• n. The grave, or underworld.
• n. An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are…
• n. Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the…
• n. (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
• v. (transitive) To make pits in.
• v. To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
• v. (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
• v. (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs…
• n. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
• n. A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
• n. The core of an implosion weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper…
• v. (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
• n. (informal) A pit bull terrier.

pock

• n. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
• n. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar.
• v. To scar or mark with pits.

scrape

• v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
• v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• v. To barely manage to achieve.
• v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
• v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
• v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
• n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• n. An awkward set of circumstances.
• n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

symptom

• n. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease…
• n. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else,…