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

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

Six months later, a heavily scarred Margo is discovered by Paul and Lydia's police officer nephew Nate (Kevin Alves) while sipping a drink at a bar. —TIME, 13 Dec. 2024

The site of scarred lands ravaged by a decades-old territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was once well-known for its verdant agricultural landscape. —Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above