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Garnished vs Marred - What's the difference?

garnished | marred |

As verbs the difference between garnished and marred

is that garnished is (garnish) while marred is (mar).

As an adjective marred is

(obsolete) of a person, to be perplexed or troubled.

garnished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (garnish)

  • garnish

    English

    Verb

  • To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
  • * Spenser
  • All within with flowers was garnished .
  • (cooking) To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, a dish garnished with parsley.
  • To furnish; to supply.
  • By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. (Job 26:13, KJV)
  • (slang, archaic) To fit with fetters; to fetter
  • (Johnson)
  • (legal) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to; to garnishee.
  • Derived terms

    * garnishee * garnishment * garnishor

    Noun

    (garnishes)
  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  • Pewter vessels in general.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 478:
  • The accounts of collegiate and monastic institutions give abundant entries of the price of pewter vessels, called also garnish .
  • Something added for embellishment; decoration; ornament; also, dress; garments, especially when showy or decorated.
  • * Shakespeare
  • So are you, sweet, / Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
  • * Prior
  • Matter and figure they produce; / For garnish this, and that for use.
  • (cookery) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  • (slang, obsolete) Fetters.
  • (slang, historical) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
  • (Fielding)

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    marred

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of a person, to be perplexed or troubled
  • (Northern England) Of a child, to be spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (mar)