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Scarify v. t. (past & past part. scarified; pres. part. scarifying)

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.

(Agric.) To stir the surface soil of, as a field.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scarify" Quotes from Famous Books

... from Odette alone;—so the immorality (had it really existed) which he now found in the Verdurins would have been powerless, if they had not invited Odette with Forcheville and without him, to unstop the vials of his wrath and to make him scarify their 'infamy.' Doubtless Swann's voice shewed a finer perspicacity than his own when it refused to utter those words full of disgust at the Verdurins and their circle, and of joy at his having shaken himself free of it, save in an artificial and ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... brains of the captive with my tomahawk, at once spoil the three days' amusement of my kindred tribe, at the very moment when the brands were lighted, the pincers heated, the cauldrons boiling, the knives sharpened, to tear, scorch, seethe, and scarify the ...

— The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott

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