mar

verb

1. (transitive)To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

   “[…] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:”

   “Prospero: […]huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.”

   “Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.”

   “Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.”

   “[…] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.”

noun

1. A blemish.

   “For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of mere (“a body of standing water”).
3. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of mayor and mair.
4. A title of respect in Syriac, given to all saints and also used before the Christian names of bishops.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of modified aspect ratio.

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of March.
2. An earldom in the Scottish peerage.
3. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Mar (“March”).

adj

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable)Abbreviation of maroon (an eye color).
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable)Initialism of missing at random.