All mar synonyms
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M m verb mar
- sully β to soil, stain, or tarnish.
- harm β a U.S. air-to-surface missile designed to detect and destroy radar sites by homing on their emissions.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- tarnish β to dull the luster of (a metallic surface), especially by oxidation; discolor.
- ruin β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- bruise β A bruise is an injury which appears as a purple mark on your body, although the skin is not broken.
- taint β the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
- impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- blight β You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
- stain β a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- scar β a precipitous, rocky place; cliff.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- ding β to cause surface damage to; dent: Flying gravel had dinged the car's fenders.
- blemish β A blemish is a small mark on something that spoils its appearance.
- disfigure β to mar the appearance or beauty of; deform; deface: Our old towns are increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- bend β When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
- scratch β to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- warp β OS/2
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- blot β If something is a blot on a person's or thing's reputation, it spoils their reputation.
- tweak β to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
- vitiate β to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
- detract β If one thing detracts from another, it makes it seem less good or impressive.
- queer β strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- maim β to deprive of the use of some part of the body by wounding or the like; cripple: The explosion maimed him for life.
- mutilate β to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
- mangle β to smooth or press with a mangle.
- deform β If something deforms a person's body or something else, it causes it to have an unnatural shape. In technical English, you can also say that the second thing deforms.
- damage β To damage an object means to break it, spoil it physically, or stop it from working properly.
- hurt β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- foul up β something that is foul.
- mess up β a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- rough up β having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
- shake up β an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
- louse up β any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
noun mar
- vice β any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it.
- clean out β If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- dilapidate β to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
- use up β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- lay waste β to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- wrecker β a person or thing that wrecks.
- ruination β the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.