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scarify

[ UK /skˈæɹɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
    The men in some African tribes scarify their faces
  2. scratch the surface of
    scarify seeds
  3. 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
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