Meanings
verbmarre (third-person singular simple present marres, present participle marring, simple past and past participle marred)
present singular third person marres · participle present marring · participle past marred · past marred
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of mar.
For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster
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marre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marre
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“marre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marre. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “marre,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marre.
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