Dictionary entry details
• MAR (noun)
Meaning:
The month following February and preceding April
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Mar; March
Hypernyms ("Mar" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Mar"):
Annunciation; Annunciation Day; Lady Day; March 25 (a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland)
March 2; Texas Independence Day (Texans celebrate the anniversary of Texas' declaration of independence from Mexico in 1836)
March 19; Saint Joseph; St Joseph (a Christian holy day)
mid-March (the middle part of March)
March equinox; spring equinox; vernal equinox (March 21)
Holonyms ("Mar" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Meaning:
A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
blemish; mar; defect
Context example:
a facial blemish
Hypernyms ("mar" is a kind of...):
appearance; visual aspect (outward or visible aspect of a person or thing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mar"):
birthmark; nevus (a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth)
blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)
milium; whitehead (a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland)
verruca; wart ((pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus)
stigma (a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease)
blot; daub; slur; smear; smirch; smudge; spot (a blemish made by dirt)
burn; burn mark (a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body))
mark; scar; scrape; scratch (an indication of damage)
chatter mark (a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece)
check; chip (a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something)
crack (a blemish resulting from a break without complete separation of the parts)
dent; ding; gouge; nick (an impression in a surface (as made by a blow))
mole (a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin)
• MAR (verb)
Meaning:
Make imperfect
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
mar; deflower; impair; vitiate; spoil
Context example:
nothing marred her beauty
Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):
cloud; corrupt; defile; sully; taint (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon)
blemish; deface; disfigure (mar or spoil the appearance of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Destroy or injure severely
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
mar; mutilate
Context example:
mutilated bodies
Hypernyms (to "mar" is one way to...):
maim (injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "mar"):
force out; gouge (force with the thumb)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
