scarred

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(of skin) having a scar (= a mark left after an injury has healed), or several scars, on it:

Doctors warned he may be scarred for life and will need plastic surgery.

Both her legs were heavily scarred.

(of a person) damaged mentally or emotionally:

Many soldiers are left scarred by the horrors of war.

He has repeated nightmares and is physically disfigured and psychologically scarred.

(of a place) showing signs of physical destruction:

The landscape is scarred by decades of coal mining.

Windows are broken and the walls are scarred by graffiti.