marring

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marring  /ˈmɑ rɪŋ/ ? Meaning of "marring"

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Definition(s):

  1. (n) the month following February and preceding April
  2. (n) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
  3. (v) make imperfect
  4. (v) destroy or injure severely

Synonym(s)

defect, march, mutilate, deflower, impair, spoil

Usage(s):

  1. In Minnesota, the highway employees have removed the last of the advertisements marring the motor roads through that state.
  2. A buzz-saw operator whose activities were marring the sound track was paid $200 to knock it off for the day.
  3. Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy.

Quotes

  1. /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "According to the data I possess, the authorities are marring the elections," Armenia's first President Levon Ter-Petrosyan said on February 19.
    on Feb 19, 2008 By: Levon Ter-Petrosian Source: PanARMENIAN.Net

  2. "Technology is marring the lines ...... and at the end of the day I think we're going to move more in the Jeffersonian, free-speech direction," Powell said.
    on Jan 7, 2005 By: Michael Powell Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal

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