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# marred

verb (mar, mars, marred, marring)

«marred» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To mar something is to spoil it so that it is less good than it was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marred/#m1)

### In the lessons

a sad event that spoils a happy time

### Examples

- After three happy years an accident marred their happiness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marred/#x1)
- Rain marred our picnic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marred/#x2)
- A scratch marred the new table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marred/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

Isaiah says a servant's face was marred, and tradition has often linked this to Israel's suffering. Jeremiah's spoiled girdle is a sign of how a ruined people is useless.

**Interpretation.** Jeremiah's girdle shows that Israel, once close to God like a belt, became spoiled by pride. Jews and Christians read Isaiah's "marred" servant in different ways.

### Examples

- For the LORD restoreth the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches. — (Prophets NAM.2.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marred/#x1)
- According as many were appalled at thee — so marred was his visage unlike that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men — (Prophets ISA.52.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marred/#x2)
- Then I went to Perath, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. (Prophets JER.13.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marred/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «marred» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/marred/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marred» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/marred.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «marred» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/marred/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«marred» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/marred.html) on Mova free.