scarred

adjective

ˈskärd 

: having or marked by a scar or many scars

a scarred finger/face

an old, badly scarred piece of furniture

The old tile on the walls is cracked and grimy; the wooden floor is scarred; pipes and wires look slapdash and dangerous.

—Thomas Matthews

At night, when candlelight softens their scarred and weathered faces, the hard men of the French Foreign Legion begin to sing.

—Geraldine Brooks

The plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life.

—Natalie Angier

The impression left by her study is that it indeed took fortitude on the part of these authors to channel resentment into creation, to make beautiful texts out of scarred lives.

—Lois E. Nesbitt

Examples of scarred in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

His face was scarred by a shotgun pattern of blood-red scabs and ulcers. —Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024

For the most part, these failed: grafts of bone and soft tissue swelled, scarred, reabsorbed, and disappeared, leaving behind the question of how to live in a body that both defined her and refused stable definition. —Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024

Inside the effort to restore a scarred watershed March 24, 2024 The dismantling of four dams, which began in June 2023 and has involved hundreds of workers, is the largest dam removal effort in U.S. history. —Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024

And the fiery colors of those famous windows will surely be all the proof needed that Notre Dame – scarred and wounded but transformed – lives on. —Joseph Ataman, CNN, 30 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above