battle-scarred

1. 1.

   scarred by battle

   Similarinjured

Questions about battle-scarred

What does battle-scarred mean?

battle-scarred means "scarred by battle".

How many syllables are in battle-scarred?

battle-scarred has 3 syllables and divides as batt-le-scar-red under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is battle-scarred a common word?

battle-scarred is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.