mar

M'AR, verb transitive [Latin marceo.]1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision.I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus 19:27.2. To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of.When brewers mar their malt with water.3. To injure; to diminish; to interrupt.But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.4. To injure; to deform; to disfigure.Ire, envy and despairMarr'd all his borrow'd visage.His visage was so marred more than any man. Isaiah 52:1.Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.[This word is not obsolete in America.]MAR, in nightmar. [See Nightmar.]M'AR, noun An injury.1. A lake. [See Mere.]