scarring

Definition of scarringnext
present participle of scar

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • During a late-night safety test, the power plant’s Number 4 reactor exploded, tearing through the building and sending a column of radioactive material into the sky.
    Benjamin Mack-Jackson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The one that was about ambition and friendship and celebrating women, not tearing them down.
    Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Wind gusts reached up to 110 mph, damaging homes throughout the city as the storm moved northeast.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Days of severe storms to come The shift in the weather pattern that sparked Thursday night’s storms will keep the threat level elevated for damaging wind gusts, hail and tornadoes in the central US into early next week.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The songs are at times over-the-top, at others lacerating in their introspection about everything from the anxiety of aging to the anguished choice to terminate a pregnancy.
    Adam Bradley Luis Alberto Rodriguez Carlos Nazario, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • After all, the two Republicans have spent more than $80 million battering each other on the airwaves.
    Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The suspect above is wanted for spitting on Red Line passengers, battering one.
    Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Drone debris also fell on a roof of a residential building in the city of Samara, wounding a number of people, Fedorishchev said.
    Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Local and federal law enforcement agencies responded to the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge, Thursday, after gunfire broke out inside the shopping center's food court, killing at least one person and wounding several more.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The government is mindful of not hurting economic growth or spurring panic among consumers.
    Shoko Oda, Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Then Simons left the game on a stretcher just past the hour after hurting his knee.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Scarring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarring. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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