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Definition of scar : 1. A marine food fish, the scarus, or parrot fish.
2. A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
3. A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary.
4. An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth.
5. To form a scar.
6. To mark with a scar or scars.

Synonyms:

home run, lucre, bell ringer, cross off, clams, cross, stigmatise, cross out, chicken feed, wampum, gull, scrawl, chump, fool, cabbage, mark off, cacography, marking, simoleons, scraping, notice, tag, fall guy, label, print, denounce, shekels, scribble, cicatrice, commemorate, sucker, strike off, pock, target, start, scratch line, excoriation, tick off, dinero, scratching, moolah, injury, soft touch, pit, note, crisscross, sugar, kale, bull's eye, set, loot, lolly, match, gelt, mug, incision, oppose, strike out, marker, wound, boodle, lettuce, differentiate, stigmatize, cat-face, play off, cicatrix, prick, pelf, bread, sign, stone, dough, starting line, grade, dent, tick, punctuate, patsy, distinguish, nock, check off

eyesore, defacement, fleck, scrape, rift, chip, deform, notch, mark, weal, slit, spot, speck, distortion, brand, discoloration, discolor, freckle, scab, spoilage, hurt, impurity, wart, stigma, splotch, disfigure, crack, distort, deface, nick, damage, deformity, taint, hack, pockmark, dot, sore, flaw, hole, scratch, imperfection, mar, blister, drawback, check, defect, abrasion, fracture, lesion, spoil, blemish, stain, abrade, disfigurement, gash, tarnish, blot, scuff, fault, score, blotch, kink

Usage examples:

• I'd never 've known you, Davey, but for the scar on your neck where the calf kicked you. - "The Pioneers", Katharine Susannah Prichard.
• And yet she felt as if she were playing with a fire that would leave its scar- not on her heart or Quentin's, perhaps, but on that of the man she was to marry. - "Castle Craneycrow", George Barr McCutcheon.
• Not a scar or a sign, and he's been out in the dust for years. - "The Moon is Green", Fritz Reuter Leiber.