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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



... 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)


Words linked to "Scarify" :   nock, puncture, score, loosen


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