Injury vs Scar - What's the difference?
injury | scar | Related terms |
damage to the body of a human or animal
violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests
(archaic) injustice
(obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
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To mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
Injury is a related term of scar.
As nouns the difference between injury and scar
is that injury is damage to the body of a human or animal while scar is a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound or scar can be a cliff or scar can be a marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish.As verbs the difference between injury and scar
is that injury is (obsolete) to wrong, to injure while scar is to mark the skin permanently.injury
English
(wikipedia injury)Alternative forms
* enjuryNoun
(injuries)- The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.
- Slander is an injury to the character.
Synonyms
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* harm * hurt * damage * loss * mischief * impairment * detriment * wrong * evil * injusticeVerb
- The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.
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* *scar
English
(wikipedia scar)Etymology 1
Conflation of (etyl) . More at shard.Synonyms
* cicatriceVerb
(scarr)- Yet I'll not shed her blood; / Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.