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Scarify   Listen
verb
Scarify  v. t.  (past & past part. scarified; pres. part. scarifying)  
1.
To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.
2.
(Agric.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.





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"Scarify" Quotes from Famous Books



... is one bit of verse in the foregoing sample column of Field's political paragraphs, it does scant justice to his most effective weapon. His political jingles were the delight or vexation of partisans as they happened to ridicule or scarify this side or that. He was on terms of personal friendship with General John A. Logan, whose admiration for General Grant he shared to the fullest degree. But this never restrained Field from taking all sorts of waggish liberties with ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... criticism; but it was swept aside among the rubbish of the magazines. And it's just because of my pungent phrases that I have excited so much enmity. Wait! Wait! Let me have my own review, and leisure, and satisfaction of mind—heavens! what I will write! How I will scarify!' ...
— New Grub Street • George Gissing
... the first beam smites the sullen Sky, With silent feet Hajam comes stealing nigh, Bearing the Brush, the Vessel, and the Blade, These sallow cheeks of mine to scarify. ...
— Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses • John Kendall (AKA Dum-Dum)


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