I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leave a mark/stain/scar etc
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The wine had left a permanent mark on the tablecloth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mental
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He still carries the mental scars .
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The 250 stitches Stephen Thomas required have now been removed, but both physical and mental scars remain.
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The mental scars will eventually heal!
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The physical wounds are beginning to heal, but what about the mental scars ?
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The attack has left mental scars on Terry and his family too.
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The mental scars are more insidious.
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And he now enjoys a walk again ... though until the mental scars heal, nowhere near the traffic.
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But the mental scars left by that head on crash are still with him, especially when he drives.
white
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She still had the faint white scar on her ankle, although the cross-hatch of scratches on her right knee was gone.
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It is a neat white scar .
■ NOUN
tissue
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The scar tissue was old and seamed.
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Others need several revisions to their surgeries, and develop painful masses of scar tissue .
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We stop for the night in the middle of this scar tissue that will never heal.
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I notice George lightly touching the temporal lobe, exploring for scar tissue once more.
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The scar tissue with which animals seal their wounds is not directly comparable to the callus tissue of plants.
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The rough pebbles of scar tissue interrupted the deep lines that laughter had once carved into his temples.
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My brain is encrusted with scar tissue from all the frames he has pinched and nicked.
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue .
■ VERB
bear
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His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars - for Lawrence today was the test he's been waiting for.
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All bore ugly scars from repeated knife fights on the streets and in the dives around Clinton Avenue.
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This boat was used in an Indiana Jones film and still bears the scars .
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She still bore the scars of battle, a battle she had nearly lost.
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He had only ever been discovered once and still bore the scars on his wrist from the Alsatian's razor-sharp-teeth.
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He still bore the scars of her teeth on his calf and upper thigh.
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And within a week Aseta was playing again-though she still bears the scar today.
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Many people bear permanent scars from such encounters.
carry
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He still carries the mental scars .
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You may be carrying the scars of lost battles and broken dreams.
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He has also cracked his skull and still carries the scar .
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We carry the scars of reality.
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In the very midst of comfort and celebration, each carries scars of exile and war so many years later.
heal
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Four of these pits are now disused and nature has started to heal the scars .
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Old healed scars reopen, and the muscles of the heart lose their strength.
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Ulcers which result from these bites eventually heal leaving small circular scars .
leave
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Fibrous tissue replaces this, the capillaries heal and contract down over a period of months to leave a linear scar .
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The Acid Era has left its scars on the man.
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It was a really bad cut which would leave a thick scar .
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Trade embargoes, lifted now, prevented children from getting immunizations, and many are left with the scars of polio.
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Even the gradual assimilation of his disappointment would leave scars and blights, like a landscape after fire.
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But the deeper imprint of the central authority, and the harsher side to its reformist zeal, left scars .
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Deep wounds must be stitched together to help the healing process and they tend to leave scars .
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Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
see
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At that distance Adam couldn't see the scar that ran down Kaas' cheek.
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Geological features ground out by ancient glaciers are seen overlaid by the scars of recent wind erosion.
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Is this the way you keep faith? See these scars .
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We talked about cosmetic surgery and we asked to see the scars .
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Seeing the village again, from a new angle, Maxim could see other scars of the blast and its debris.
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In the light of the flaring sconce the girl could see the scar quite clearly.
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As she came closer he saw it was a scar , the scar tissue even more white than the skin around it.
show
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He pushes back his sleeve to show scars where I have vaccination marks.
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Offer to show Uncle Manfred your scar .
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At that time, Russell Square was showing its scars .
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As proof he showed them the scar on his foot which in other years they had both seen many a time.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He had a scar across his forehead from hitting his head on the bottom of a swimming pool.
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They say the wound's quite deep, and will probably leave a scar .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doctors originally estimated Willie would miss six weeks to two months, and who knew what sort of psychological scars might linger?
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His facial scars radiating ridges pigmented with tar or carbon pictured some many-legged mutant spider.
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The scars on his left cheek seeped a pale blood.
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The best way to get scars to fade is to leave them alone.
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This fossil bark is typified by its lozenge-shaped leaf scars arranged in spiral rows.
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We hear also that Ahab had previously received his scar from lightning during such a storm.
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What scars deformed him, so that even you, who stand for him in the courtroom, are repulsed by him?
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You may be carrying the scars of lost battles and broken dreams.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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The favorite of these visitors was a girl named Lily who had a badly scarred hand.
■ NOUN
life
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But doctors decided not to patch up her wounds in casualty for fear of scarring her for life .
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Then she meets Martin, another person alone and internally scarred , and their lives begin to have meaning once more.
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His friend will be scarred for life .
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She'd be scarred for life .
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Children are particularly at risk, and can be scarred for life from a serious encounter.
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Meanwhile, Steve's coming to terms with being scarred for life .
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Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner, scarring him for life .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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battle-scarred young men
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Her arm was scarred with cigarette burns.
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The scandals have scarred Garcia's life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lover dying of smallpox - Miss Phoebe was scarred from it.
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It scarred those forced to lean on it.
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Older, richer, wiser and more scarred, Capt.
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The blue paint of the practice stalls was scarred with initials and hearts and anarchist signs among others.
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The children who had suffered a trauma would survive the experience, scarred by it and a little flawed by it.
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The favorite of these visitors was a girl named Lily who had a badly scarred hand.
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Their faces scarred with dirt, their uniforms filthy, the miners look like refugees from another age.