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marring

/mahr/US // mɑr //UK // (mɑː) //

腌制,腌渍,腌臜,磨损

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    marred, mar·ring.

    • : to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
    • : to disfigure, deface, or scar: The scratch marred the table.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhurt, damage

Examples

  • Smaller WhatsApp rivals are having a moment in the sun in India after the world’s largest instant messaging app got marred in controversy over its updated privacy policy.

  • The game was marred by the Eagles’ controversial quarterback switch.

  • Disturbing those remains would add even more insult to a region that has been marred by pollution and disease from energy and manufacturing plants establishing themselves there.

  • The false assertion that the election was marred by widespread voter fraud was consistently reinforced by cheapfakes.

  • Claiming to think that the presidential election in its entirety was marred by fraud and illegality.

  • He sits in dark corners of the narrative, a bit inanimate, like a broken chair marring a finely furnished room.

  • A cloth or paper is placed over the back of the chair to prevent marring of the varnish or wood.

  • Yet I think the cry was less from pain than to see the marring of her shining breastplate; and the tears started to her eyes.

  • My popularity grew as the improvements increased, but one trifling incident came near marring it.

  • By what she was doing she was marring her chance of preserving into old age the appearance of comparative youth.

  • The thought should be clothed in a perfect body, so that nothing can be added or subtracted without marring the beauty.