mar
/icons/point.icon INJURE, HARM, HURT, DAMAGE, IMPAIR, MAR mean to affect injuriously.
INJURE implies the inflicting of anything detrimental to one's looks, comfort, health, or success.
e.g. badly injured in an accident
HARM often stresses the inflicting of pain, suffering, or loss.
e.g. careful not to harm the animals
HURT implies inflicting a wound to the body or to the feelings.
e.g. hurt by their callous remarks
DAMAGE suggests injury that lowers value or impairs usefulness.
e.g. a table damaged in shipping
IMPAIR suggests a making less complete or efficient by deterioration or diminution.
e.g. years of smoking had impaired his health
MAR applies to injury that spoils perfection (as of a surface) or causes disfigurement.
e.g. the text is marred by many typos
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verb (mars, marring, marred) with object
impair the appearance of; disfigure:
｟ややかたく｠ …を損なう, 台なしにする, 傷つける(spoil) (!しばしば受け身で)
e.g. no wrinkles marred her face.
impair the quality of; spoil:
e.g. violence marred a number of New Year celebrations.
ORIGIN
Old English merran‘hinder, damage’, of Germanic origin; probably related to Dutch marren ‘loiter’.