Mar vs Sea - What's the difference?
mar | sea |
To spoil, to damage.
* Dryden
* Milton
A large body of salty water. (Major seas are known as oceans.)
(label) A large number or quantity; a vast amount.
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A heavy wave.
(label) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
As a noun mar
is sea.As a verb sea is
to saw.mar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(marr)- But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
- Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.
Etymology 2
See (m).Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----sea
English
Noun
- A sea of faces stared back at the singer.
- With no power for the electric lights, the house was a sea of darkness.
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