Scar vs Destroy - What's the difference?
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To mark the skin permanently.
* Shakespeare
To form a scar.
(figurative) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
To cause destruction.
To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
To put down or euthanize.
(colloquial) To defeat soundly.
(computing) To remove data.
In transitive terms the difference between scar and destroy
is that scar is to mark the skin permanently while destroy is to put down or euthanize.In intransitive terms the difference between scar and destroy
is that scar is to form a scar while destroy is to cause destruction.As a noun scar
is a permanent mark on the skin sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.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.
Derived terms
* scar tissueSee also
* birthmarkEtymology 2
From (etyl) sker.Etymology 3
(etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* ----destroy
English
Verb
To damage beyond use or repair.
- The earthquake destroyed several apartment complexes.
- ''Hooligans destroy unprovoked
- ''Smoking destroys the natural subtlety of the palate
- Destroying a rabid dog is required by law.
- The memory leak happened because we forgot to destroy the temporary lists.