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

But all around the patrons, staring down from lampposts and shop windows, are pictures of hostages held in Gaza, stark reminders that Israel is at war and forever scarred by the deadliest attack in its history. —Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2024

For those who don't know, Robert England plays Freddy Krueger, a hideously scarred child killer who was murdered by a lynch mob. —Simon Thompson, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Farrell’s Penguin is heavily scarred, walks with a waddle due to his club foot, and has an overbearing mother. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024

Keoghan is barely pictured on screen, but his macabre laughter and glimpses of his scarred face do all of the talking. —Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above