: 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
Thomas MatthewsAt night, when candlelight softens their scarred and weathered faces, the hard men of the French Foreign Legion begin to sing.—Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine BrooksThe 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
Natalie AngierThe 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
Lois E. NesbittExamples of scarred in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Keke Palmer had an interaction with her manager that left her scarred.
—Raven Brunner, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump was scarred by the NSC during his first term, when two career military officers became whistleblowers, raising their concerns about Trump's 2019 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the president sought an investigation of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
More importantly, the Islamic State inspires and motivates deluded men who are either radicalized or who are mentally and psychologically scarred.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The scarred hands of the miners who extracted the coltan and cobalt that now resided in his silenced phone.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for scarred 
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Raven Brunner, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Trump was scarred by the NSC during his first term, when two career military officers became whistleblowers, raising their concerns about Trump's 2019 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the president sought an investigation of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
More importantly, the Islamic State inspires and motivates deluded men who are either radicalized or who are mentally and psychologically scarred.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
The scarred hands of the miners who extracted the coltan and cobalt that now resided in his silenced phone.
—Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for scarred
Dictionary Entries Near scarred
Cite this Entry
“Scarred.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scarred. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share