mar
verb /mɑː(r)/
/mɑːr/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mar | /mɑː(r)/ /mɑːr/ |
| he / she / it mars | /mɑːz/ /mɑːrz/ |
| past simple marred | /mɑːd/ /mɑːrd/ |
| past participle marred | /mɑːd/ /mɑːrd/ |
| -ing form marring | /ˈmɑːrɪŋ/ /ˈmɑːrɪŋ/ |
- mar something to damage something or make something less good or successful synonym blight, ruin
- The game was marred by the behaviour of drunken fans.
Extra Examples- A frown marred his handsome features.
- The meal was marred only by the somewhat over-enthusiastic waiter.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMar is used with these nouns as the subject:- frown
- violence
- beauty
- image
- …
Word OriginOld English merran ‘hinder, damage’, of Germanic origin; probably related to Dutch marren ‘loiter’.