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In the 1970's the US government commissioned a group of 100 freelance photographers to document life in the US. With a particular focus on the environment. And on the pollution and waste
that ended up in our rivers and streams and lakes. These photos captured the unregulated dumping of industrial waste into these waters, marring
their natural beauty. It helped the public see what a serious problem water had become in the US. And show why one of the country's first environmental laws
Listen to native speakers pronounce “marring” as a verb in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
present participle and gerund of mar: ruining, thwarting, spoiling.
“[…]Hath all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit? From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England, From Lisbon, Barbary, and India? And not one vessel scape the dreadful touch Of merchant-marring rocks?”
Something that mars or spoils; a blemish.
“Unable to read even as much of them as the scamps who wrote them and could read nothing more, the smuggler had finally trained himself to ignore them; they were marrings to be overlooked while the eye was out for other, more meaningful detail.”