scar in English: A mark left on your skin after a cut or wound has healed. (noun)

Translation

A mark left on your skin after a cut or wound has healed.

Word origin

From Old French escharre, from Greek eskhara, the crust that forms over a burn.

Gender

Pluralscars

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"Scar" is the mark left where the skin was once cut.

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The wound closed; the mark that stayed is the scar.

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"Scars" is the plural, meaning more than one mark.

wound

A hurt place on the body where the skin has been cut or broken.

cut

To split or open something using a knife or other sharp tool.

skin

The thin outer layer that covers the whole of your body.

mark

A number or letter a teacher gives your work to show how good it is.

hurt

To cause pain to someone, or to feel pain.

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