Difference between damaged and scarify
Definitions
adjective
- harmed or injured or spoiled
- being unjustly brought into disrepute
Examples
They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
Unless the damaged areas are quickly revegetated, the eroded soils sink below sea level and the area becomes open water.
Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
Definitions
verb
- puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
- scratch the surface of
- break up
Examples
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds.
He went on to scarify the same companies for being only interested in putting on the tried and the tested to the exclusion of modern works by Irish writers and composers.
It's a good time to scarify lawns and remove the dead grass called thatch.
