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scar
noun as in blemish from previous injury or illness
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I am one of those people whose scars are visible—both physical and emotional ones.
We’ll carry with us the scars of this long year, and of all our history.
Now, he says, gesturing to the burn scar, the towns had a fire defense in place of a liability.
The victims have their scars on their bodies, family traumas, societal traumas.
You beat cancer, but many people have lifelong scars, both physical and emotional.
A scar marks her right wrist where the bullet hit her eight months ago.
He lifted his t-shirt and showed us a long scar, running from sternum to waistband.
[points to above the knee] The scar looks like a shark bite.
Prinze loves Star Wars and has a big scar on his chin to prove it.
One runner in Houston now has a permanent, hoof-shaped scar in the center of his forehead.
He has an ugly scar—a knife-cut—across the back of one hand; you can't mistake him if you get sight of him.
There was a scar in the shape of a cross on the man's swarthy cheek, and it glowed redly with the anger that filled him.
He was a dark, somber looking man with a particularly ugly scar on his chin.
Anyhow, when McKibben saw him after the team was stopped, there was that cross-shaped scar, plain as anything.
Brutus was getting well, but there would always be a scar on his shoulder, where the sharp-pointed shrub had entered the flesh.
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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scar, such as: blister, crater, defect, discoloration, disfigurement, and flaw.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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