English-Portuguese translations for scar

• cicatriz
  Srebrenica é uma ferida que deixou uma profunda cicatriz na história da Europa. Srebrenica is a wound that has left a deep scar on the history of Europe.
  As consequências dos crimes do regime comunista são uma cicatriz repugnante no rosto da Europa. The consequences of the Communist regime's crimes are a repulsive scar on the face of Europe.
  O Holocausto é uma trágica cicatriz no rosto da humanidade e jamais se deverá repetir, nem sequer em pequena escala. The Holocaust is a tragic scar on the face of mankind and it must never be repeated, not even on a miniature scale.
• cicatrizar
  Para começar a cicatrizar as feridas das populações sujeitas a sofrimentos insuportáveis sob a forma de genocídio e outros crimes de guerra, são necessárias acções imediatas.If the scars felt by the many people who have been affected by intolerable suffering in the form of genocide and other war crimes are to begin to heal, immediate action is required.
• deixar cicatriz
• marcar

Definition of scar

• A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound
• Any permanent mark resulting from damage
• To mark the skin permanently
• To form a scar
• A cliff or rock outcrop
• A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water
• A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae

Examples

• Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.

Related words

• Madagascar
• scarf
• scare
• scarce
• scarecrow
• scarp
• scarcely
• discard
• scarlatina