Mar

Definition: Mar

Mar

Noun

1. The month following February and preceding April.

Verb

1. Make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty".

2. Destroy, as of a limb.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Mar \Mar\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Marred(m["a]rd); Marring.]. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Mar

Amorphism

Verb: deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange; blemish, mar.

Deterioration

Injure, impair, labefy, damage, harm, hurt, shend, scath, scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage.

Hindrance

Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.

Crosswords: Mar

Breton (if), Catalan (sea), Frisian (but, lake, loch), Hungarian (bit, bite, bitten, burnt, to bite, to bite, bit, bitten, to burn, to burn, burnt, to cut, cut, to mill, to sting, stung), Irish (as, because, like, as, like, as, for, like, as, for, because), Lombard (sea), Luxembourgish (tomorrow), Occitan (sea), Portuguese (billow, blue, brine, deep, ocean, sea, water-wave), Romansch (sea), Scottish (as, even as, how, in like manner, like, like as : mar sin, such as), Somali (pass), Spanish (briny, drink, ocean, sea, the blue, the deep).

A memorial service was held at the Mar Vista Inn today for Jasper Lamar Crabb (Chinatown; writing credit: Robert Towne)

Barra ya Isti Mar Saat el Fahrir Dakkat (1974)

El Mar mayor (1973)

De mar a mar por los Pirineos (1971)

En una playa junto al mar (1971)

Maxiaventura en el mar (1971)

Dreaming/Waking (performing artist: Kathy & Zander Nyrond Mar)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History (reference)

• Al mar, al mar, osito polar (reference)

• Corazón de mar (Heart of the Sea) (reference)

• El Mar Es Salado: Y Otras Preguntas Sobre Los Oceanos (Enciclopedia 'Me Pregunto Por Que) (reference)

• King's Indian Defence: Mar Del Plata Variation (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ciencia Y Mar (reference)

• Met Mar (reference)

• Productos Del Mar (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Cafe Del Mar - Volume 7 (reference)

• Vol. 5-Cafe Del Mar (reference)

• Mar I Nit [IMPORT] (reference)

• Del Verso a La Mar [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mobile - Del Mar (reference)

• Night Light - Del Mar (reference)

• Switch Plate - Del Mar (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Great Egret is a common species seen in the lagoons of Mar Negro. They feed on a variety of invertebrates that inhabit these areas. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Mar. Resources Lab entry lock is an acryllic sphere. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

The fishing vessel "Senor del Mar" heading out of Callao, Peru. Observed from the NOAA Ship McARTHUR while entering Callao Harbor during STAR 2000 project. Credit: Small World.

Un buen consumidor disfruta más la comida del mar si la sabe combinar. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Chicago, Ill. Mar. 1942. Ida B. Wells housing project A meeting of the Cub Scouts in the community center / John Delano. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Calle Maritimo, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gen. J.J. Pershing, on reviewing stand addressing the men of the 4th Div. after the review, Kaisersech, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, Mar. 18, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Anson Stager, Telegraph Corps, officer of the Federal Army (Brevet Brig. Gen. from Mar. 13, 1865). Credit: Library of Congress.

Str. A. D. MacTier, sponsor, Mar. 8, 1913. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hotel Melvue, near Pen Mar Park. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Here from the world I win release, Nor scorn of men, nor footstep rude, Break in to mar the holy peace Of this great solitude

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Glasziou PP, Hayem M, Del Mar CB. Antibiotics for acute otitis media in children. (references)

Business

In 1998, Mar del Plata a major fishing port and beach resort 300 miles South of Buenos Aires City, was dredged with the intention of accommodating larger ships. (references)

One half of the total population is found in the seven cities and corresponding suburbs of Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, La Plata, San Miguel de Tucuman and Mar del Plata. (references)

With the exception of Mar del Plata, a major resort on the ocean, very little water sports take place on the sea. Considering that greater Buenos Aires has a population of 14 million and is located in the Pampas flatlands, it is only logical that the inhabitants should look at the River Plate (120 nautical miles wide at its broadest point) for leisure activities. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

On the whole, no conflicts mar relations with neighbors, which are on a sound footing. (references)

Argentina

Other major cities--Cordoba (1.2 million); Rosario (950,000); Mar del Plata (900,000); Mendoza (400,000). (references)

Jamaica

In the 1997 general elections, grassroots Jamaican efforts, supplemented by international observers, helped reduce the violence that has tended to mar Jamaican elections. (references)

Human Rights

Argentina

Such trials continued in a number of jurisdictions throughout the country, with the best known of these in the towns of Bahia Blanca, La Plata, and Mar del Plata in the Province of Buenos Aires. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

According to press reports, in Mar del Plata, on January 17, a Nigerian street vendor was assaulted with a hammer and robbed by soccer fans shouting racist and xenophobic insults. (references)

Political Rights

Cuba

Although President Castro signed the Declaration of Vina del Mar at the Sixth Ibero-American Summit in 1996, in which government leaders reaffirmed their commitment to democracy and political pluralism, the Government continued to oppose independent political activity on the ground that the national system provides a "perfected" form of democracy and that pluralism exists within the one-party structure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "Mar": Boca Del Mar ♦ bow Mar ♦ corona Del Mar ♦ Del Mar ♦ Loma Mar ♦ make or mar ♦ Rancho Santa Mar ♦ Rio del Mar ♦ Sault Sainte Mar ♦ Vina del Mar. Additional references.

Beginning with "Mar": Mar-ee-a, Mar-Mac, Mar-may, mar-research, Mar-see-lay-a, mar-tee-ee, mar-text.

Ending with "Mar": Mid-mar.

Albanian

Shëmtim (deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, hideousness), Gjymtim (deformity, disablement, dismemberment, maim, maiming, mutilation), Dëmtim (damnification, defacement, defect, deterioration, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, failure, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, lesion, wound). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسد (be corrupted, be decayed, be decomposed, be depraved, be evil, be immoral, be marred, be pervert, be putrid, be rotten, be spoiled, be vicious, become corrupted, become decayed, become decomposed, become depraved, become evil, become immoral, become marred, become pervert, become perverted, become putrid, become rotten, become spoiled, become vicious, contaminate, corrupt, decay, decompose, degenerate, deprave, deteriorate, disintegrate, foul, go bad, impair, infect, mangle, mess, mess up, misrule, putrefy, rot, spoil, spoilt), ‏ضر (disadvantage, harm, hurt, impair, injure), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Обезобразявам, Развалям. (various references)

Chinese 

3月 (March, Marches). (various references)

Czech

Mařit (blight), Znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), Kazit (blight, butcher, corrupt, debauch, impair). (various references)

Farsi 

معیوب کردن (Damage, Impair), ناقص کردن (Mutilate, Truncate), زیان رساندن (Impair), صدمه زدن (Damnify, Harm, Maul, Nip, Offend, Scathe), اسیب رساندن , اسیب (Damage, Harm, Hurt, Inconvenience, Injury, Lesion, Strain, Tort, Trauma), بی اندام کردن (Mutilate). (various references)

Finnish

vahingoittaa (damage, do damage, harm, hurt, injure), turmella (damage, deprave, destroy, do damage, harm, hurt, injure, ruin, spoil), pilata (damage, injure, ruin, spoil). (various references)

French

Vicier, Gâter, Gâcher, carboniser. (various references)

German

März (March). (various references)

Greek 

βλάπτω (damage, do damage, do harm, harm, hurt, injure, vitiate), χαλώ (break down, give out, go off, ruin, scuff, spoil, unmake, vitiate), Αφανίζω, ίαταστρέφω, Φθείρω, Παραμορφώνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

־ום, ּקלקל, ּהשחית, ּהזיק, ִשחתה, קלקול (corruption, damage, disgrace, sin, spoilage, spoiling, vitiation). (various references)

Hungarian

Elront (blew, blown, corrupt, derange, foul up, impair, make worse, mess up, misfit, rot, slip up, spoil, tamper, to addle, to ball up, to bitch, to blemish, to blow, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to boss, to botch, to cock up, to corrupt, to crap sg up, to deprave, to disorder, to flaw, to foul up, to louse up, to mess, to mess up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to put out of order, to rot, to scupper, to spill the beans, to spoil, to vitiate, to worsen, unmake). (various references)

Italian

Sciupare (blow, damage, fritter, get damaged, ravage, spoil, waste), Guastare (damage, derange, fail, ruin, spoil, taint, warp), Danneggiare (damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil). (various references)

Korean 

손상시키 원본 (mar-text). (various references)

Manx

milley (blemish, blemish as work, blur, blur as vision, botch, corrupt, corruption, debauch; marring, deflower, despoil, despoliation; thousand, disfigure, disfigurement, impair, impairment, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, spoiling, tarnish). (various references)

Pig Latin

armay.(various references)

Portuguese

frustrar (balk, confound, disappoint, discomfit, elude, foil, frustrate, resist, thwart), estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, screw up, spoil), deteriorar (damage, deteriorate, flaw, injure, rot, spoil), desfigurar (deface, defeature, deform, disfeature, disfigure, distort, rub), arruinar (blight, break, crack, decay, demolish, depredate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, fling, injure, mine, puncture, ravage, reave, reive, ruin, spoil, undo, unmake, waste). (various references)

Romanian

Tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), Strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), Ruina (bankrupt, blast, blight, crock, destroy, dilapidate, impair, overturn, ravage, ruin, sink, undo), Distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

Помеха, Ушиб, Синяк. (various references)

Scottish

mill (destroy, injure). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mana (blemish, defect, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, imperfection, manna, shortcoming), pokvariti (adulterate, blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), osujetiti (foil, frustrate, prevent, queer, set back, thwart), oštetiti (blemish, damage, harm, scathe). (various references)

Spanish

estropear (bang up, batter, bedevil, blemish, bungle, chew out, chew up, cripple, crumple, damage, disable, distort, emasculate, foul up, get at, gum up, harm, hurt, knock out, lark about, lark around, maim, make a mess of, mangle, maul, mess up, muff, perish, pervert, put out of action, queer, ruin, spoil, strip, tamper, tear, tinker, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

fördärva (corrupt, deflower, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, perish, pervert, queer, ruin, undo, vitiate). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เสียหาย (happen to, ravage, spoil). (various references)

Turkish

Sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, hamstring, injure, lame, maim, mutilate, nobble), Bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukrainian

Псувати, Дефект, Спотворювати, Синець. (various references)

Welsh

hyllu (disfigure), hagru (disfigure), gwrthuno (deform, disfigure), diwyno (soil, spoil, sully), difwyno (defile, soil, sully), anurddo (blemish, disfigure, spoil). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "Mar": marabou, marabous, marabout, marabouts, maraca, maracas, maranta, marantas, marasca, marascas, maraschino, maraschinos, marasmic, marasmus, marasmuses, marathon, marathoner, marathoners, marathoning, marathonings, marathons, maraud, marauded, marauder, marauders, marauding, marauds, maravedi, maravedis, marble, marbled, marbleise, marbleised, marbleises, marbleising, marbleize, marbleized, marbleizes, marbleizing, marbler, marblers, marbles, marblier, marbliest, marbling, marblings, marbly, marc, marcasite, marcasites, marcato. (additional references)

Words ending with "Mar": almemar, calamar, chimar, cymar, damar, dammar, fulmar, grammar, jacamar, palmar, patamar, pattamar, simar. (additional references)

Words containing "Mar": aftermarket, aftermarkets, almemars, amaranth, amaranthine, amaranths, amarelle, amarelles, amaretti, amaretto, amarettos, amarna, amaryllis, amaryllises, antimarijuana, antimarket, antisubmarine, aquamarine, aquamarines, benchmark, benchmarking, benchmarkings, benchmarks, biomarker, biomarkers, birthmark, birthmarks, bookmark, bookmarked, bookmarker, bookmarkers, bookmarking, bookmarks, broodmare, broodmares, calamari, calamaries, calamaris, calamars, calamary, camaraderie, camaraderies, camarilla, camarillas, catamaran, catamarans, checkmark, checkmarked, checkmarking, checkmarks, chimars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amar, amr, amra, amyr, emar, imar, m'a, maar, mab, Macr, madr, maer, maf, mah, Mahr, mair, maj, malr, maor, maq, marb, mard, marg, mari, marm, Marn, maro, marq, marr, maru, marv, marx, matr, mau, maur, maury, mav, mavry, mawr, mawry, Mear, mearc, mehr, mer, merf, merm, mern, Merq, merr, meru, merv, Mga, miar, mihr, mirf, mirg, mirh, Mirj, mirp, mirq, mirv, mirz, misr, moar, mor, morg, morr, mpr, Mqa, Mrad, Mrap, mrb, mrd, mrp, mru, mrx, msar, mtr, Muar, mur, murf, murg, murm, murp, myar, myr, nar, narj, narq, nra, omar, omer, Qma, Umaru, ymir. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arm, ram.

-1 letter: am, ar, ma.

+1 letter: amir, arms, army, arum, barm, cram, dram, farm, gram, harm, maar, mair, marc, mare, mark, marl, mars, mart, mora, mura, pram, rami, ramp, rams, ream, roam, tram, warm.

+2 letters: aimer, alarm, amber, ambry, ameer, amirs, amort, amour, armed, armer, armet, armor, aroma, arums, aurum, barms, barmy, bream, carom, charm, cramp, crams, cream, cymar, damar, derma, drama, drams, dream, embar, farms, foram, frame, gamer, grama, gramp, grams, harem, harms, herma, ihram, inarm, joram, karma, lamer, larum, maars, macer, macro, madre, mairs, major, makar, maker, malar, manor, march, marcs, mares, marge, maria, marks, marls, marly, marry, marse, marsh, marts, marvy, maser, mater, mayor, mazer, mbira, micra, mikra, mirza, moira, molar, morae, moral, moras, moray, mudra, mural, muras, murra, namer, praam, prams, prima, ramee, ramen, ramet, ramie, rammy, ramps, ramus, realm, reams, rearm, regma, reman, remap, roams, roman, rumba, scram, simar, smarm, smart, smear, swarm, tamer, tharm, tramp, trams, tryma, umbra, unarm, warms, ziram.