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UK
/skˈæɹɪfˌaɪ/
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VERB
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puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
The men in some African tribes scarify their faces -
scratch the surface of
scarify seeds -
break up
scarify soil
How To Use scarify In A Sentence
- 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. Archive 2008-07-01
- 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.
- Scarify your lawn by raking out dead grass and moss that has built up over the summer. Times, Sunday Times
- What struck me most, after this long passage of time, is what we deem “permissible” on the screen today: We can — with impunity — rape, skewer, torture, vilify, scarify, plunge fangs into carotid arteries, sodomize…women can reveal frontal nudity within a half-inch of genitalia; men can stand frontally nude with only a hand cupped over the thingy…but only frontal. Buzzine » Tushy Tarts, Smelly Farts…
- Bledri ap Rhys had come to Saint Asaph intending mischief, threatening mischief, and the cost had fallen on his own head, but the echoes would spread outward like ripples from a stone flung into a pool, and scarify the lives of all here until murder was paid for. His Disposition
- Avoid scarifying lawns with live moss in them as it will cause the problem to spread.
- Why do you scarify His works with this presumptuous kind of ribaldry? Heart of the West [Annotated]
- We seem to be scarifying sites much earlier after harvesting, now as fast as two to three months later.
- They mechanically aerate and scarify the grass as well as weed and feed turf. The Sun