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Definition of marring : of Mar

Synonyms:

ransacking, wreaking havoc, depredating, ravaging, rending, laying waste, wrecking, pillaging, wasting, ruining, vandalizing, despoiling

distorting, blotting, deforming, dotting, discoloring, splotching, scuffing, blistering, staining, specking, disfiguring, tainting, spoiling, scraping, gashing, checking, nicking, spotting, tarnishing, abrading, cracking, hacking, flawing, scoring, notching, flecking, freckling, chipping, kinking, defacing, damaging, hurting, slitting, scratching, marking, blemishing, fracturing, scarring, defecting

botching, slipping, fouling up, slipping up, tripping, blundering, bungling, misconstruing, misjudging, stumbling, misconceiving, goofing, misestimating, erring, fluffing, miscalculating

Usage examples:

• The " star," after a sharp and rather startled look at the newcomer, deliberately " cut" four stanzas and rushed somewhat hastily through the concluding verse, marring a tremendous climax. - "Green Fancy", George Barr McCutcheon.
• It may be imagined that I kept an exceedingly anxious eye on the barometer throughout that day, for I realised that the weather would have much to do with the making or marring of our fortunes on the eventful night. - "The Log of a Privateersman", Harry Collingwood.
• To- morrow"- rising and running to the glass, and pushing back her disordered hair from her face, that is lovely in spite of marring tears-" to- morrow I shall be gayer, brighter than he has ever yet seen me. - "Molly Bawn", Margaret Wolfe Hamilton.