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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mar  \Mar\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Marred}  (m["a]rd);  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Marring}.]  [OE.  marren,  merren,  AS  merran,  myrran  (in 
  comp.),  to  obstruct,  impede,  dissipate;  akin  to  OS  merrian, 
  OHG.  marrjan  merran;  cf  D.  marren,  meeren,  to  moor  a  ship, 
  Icel.  merja  to  bruise,  crush,  and  Goth.  marzjan  to  offend. 
  Cf  {Moor},  v.] 
  1.  To  make  defective;  to  do  injury  to  esp.  by  cutting  off  or 
  defacing  a  part  to  impair;  to  disfigure;  to  deface. 
 
  I  pray  you  mar  no  more  trees  with  wiring  love  songs 
  in  their  barks.  --Shak. 
 
  But  mirth  is  marred,  and  the  good  cheer  is  lost. 
  --Dryden. 
 
  Ire,  envy,  and  despair  Which  marred  all  his  borrowed 
  visage.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  spoil;  to  ruin.  ``It  makes  us  or  it  mars  us.'' 
  ``Striving  to  mend,  to  mar  the  subject.''  --Shak.




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