SCARRING

Definitions: SCARRING

SCARRING

Noun

1. A scar; a mark.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Scar

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SCARRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Specialty Definitions: SCARRING

Domain	Definitions
Mining	The formation of scars or scaurs in roasting pyrite for sulfuric acidmanufacture. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SCARRING

English words defined with "SCARRING": mitral stenosis, mitral valve stenosis ♦ rheumatic heart disease. (references)

Specialty definitions using "SCARRING": Acne Keloid ♦ collagenous pneumoconiosis ♦ Epidermolysis Bullosa Dystrophica, Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex ♦ glomerulosclerosis ♦ Hidradenitis Suppurativa ♦ keratoconjunctivitis sicca ♦ membranoproliferative ♦ Pemphigoid, Benign Mucous Membrane, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SCARRING

Domain	Title
Books	Renal Scarring - A Multi-Organ Approach to Fibrosis (Experimental Nephsology, 1995 , Vol 3, No 2-3) (reference) Scarring Endymion (reference) Scarring Rituals (reference) The Scarring (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SCARRING

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cut surface of gross autopsy specimen of liver showing diffuse pallor due to dense network of scar tissue (fibrosis, cirrhosis). Scarring has occurred in response to chronic injury from alcohol abuse.Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: SCARRING

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		As the scarring increases, the ducts become blocked. (references)
		Keratoconus may also cause swelling and a sight-impairing scarring of the tissue. (references)
		Severe endometriosis with extensive scarring and organ damage may affect fertility. (references)
Human Rights	Malaysia	The caning, which is carried out with a 1/2-inch-thick wooden cane, commonly causes welts, and it sometimes causes scarring. (references)
Women	Guinea	The Coordinating Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting Women's and Children's Health (CPTAFE), a local NGO dedicated to eradicating FGM and ritual scarring, cited a recent decline in the percentage of women and girls subjected to FGM, estimating the figure to be between 65 and 75 percent. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SCARRING

"SCARRING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.00% of the time. "SCARRING" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	72%	18	82,615
Noun (singular)	20%	5	157,705
Noun (proper)	4%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	4%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	25	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: SCARRING

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "SCARRING": soul-scarring.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SCARRING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
acne scarring	74
scarring	45
scarring of the lung	24
scarring alopecia	14
keloid scarring	10
hypertrophic scarring	5
prevent scarring	5
treating acne scarring	5
reduce scarring	4
kidney scarring	4
facial scarring	3
corneal scarring	3
acne facial procedure reduce scarring	3
acne case scarring	3
vitamin e for scarring	3
liver scarring	3
cervical scarring	3
retinal scarring	2
parenchymal scarring	2
acne laser scarring	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCARRING

Language		Translations for "SCARRING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhëmbëzim (dentation, indent, indentation, indention, serration, toothing, undercut), dhëmbëza. (various references)

Bulgarian		изплашване, изплашвам (alarm, frighten, rouse, scare, start, startle, stun, warn away). (various references)

Chinese		�"疤 (scarred). (various references)

Danish		bananbi (scarring bee of banana), ar efter skimmelangreb på banan (banana scarring). (various references)

Dutch		litteken (banana scarring, cicatrix, scar), bananenbij (scarring bee of banana). (various references)

French		scarification (scarification, scarifying). (various references)

German		narbige (foveate). (various references)

Greek		μπανανομέλισσα (scarring bee of banana), εγκαύματα της μπανάνας (banana scarring). (various references)

Hebrew		�"צטלקות (cicatrization). (various references)

Hungarian		vágás (bust, chop, cut, cutting, editing, gash, ripping, score, scotch, section, shear, slash, slit, stroke), seb (breach, gash, lesion, smart, sore, wound). (various references)

Italian		cicatricola (banana scarring, callusing). (various references)

Korean		상처를 남김. (various references)

Pig Latin		arringscay

Portuguese		necrose da banana (banana scarring). (various references)

Russian		рубцы, рубцевание (cicatrization). (various references)

Spanish		quemaduras del banano (banana scarring), abeja del banano (scarring bee of banana). (various references)

Swedish		bananens brandärr (banana scarring), bananbi (scarring bee of banana). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SCARRING

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Trigona amalthea. (various references)
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Misspellings: SCARRING

Misspellings
	"SCARRING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sacring, scarfing, Scarlino, scarrying, scarting, scarying, scrafing, scrating, scurring. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SCARRING"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SCARRING" (pronounced skÄ"ring)
4	-Ä" r i ng	barring, charring, jarring, marring, sparring, starring, tarring.
3	-r i ng	acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flaring, flooring, gearing, glaring, Goring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jeering, luring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scoring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, shoring, smearing, snaring, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparing, Spearing, squaring, staring, steering, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SCARRING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-r-r-s"
	-1 letter: racings, sacring, scaring.
	-2 letters: arcing, cairns, caring, casing, cigars, gnarrs, grains, racing, raring, rasing.
	-3 letters: acing, airns, arris, cains, cairn, carns, carrs, cigar, crags, gains, garni, girns, gnarr, gnars, grain, grans, grins, narcs, naric, naris, ragis, rains, ranis, rings, sarin, scrag, sirra.
	-4 letters: agin, ains, airn, airs, anis, arcs, asci, cain, cans, carn, carr, cars, cigs, crag, cris, gain, gars, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, nags, narc, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rias, rigs, ring, rins, sain, sang, sari, scag, scan, scar, sign, sing, snag.
	-5 letters: ain, air, ais, ani, arc, ars, can, car, cig, cis, gan, gar, gas, gin, ins, nag, rag, ran, ras, ria, rig, rin, sac, sag, sic, sin, sir, sri.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-r-r-s"
	+2 letters: cairngorms, costarring, scarpering.
	+3 letters: carburising, fragrancies, miscarrying, precreasing, researching, resurfacing, surcharging.
	+4 letters: carrageenins, corrugations, crossbarring, generatrices, regeneracies, repurchasing, superorganic, transcribing.
	+5 letters: circularising, geriatricians, iconographers, interchangers, micromanagers, microorganism, narrowcasting, neurosurgical, orchestrating, prepurchasing, sharecropping, supercharging, transpiercing.
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