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scarify Verb [-fies, -fying, -fied] 1. Surgery to make slight incisions in (the skin) 2. Agriculture to break up and loosen (topsoil) 3. to criticize without mercy [Latin scarifare to scratch open] scarification n
USAGE: Scarify is sometimes wrongly thought to mean the same as scare: a frightening (not scarifying) film. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school. There's my wife now, she never has an answer at her tongue's end; but if I offend her, she's sure to scarify my throat with black pepper the next day, or else give me the colic with watery greens. Incapable of checking a witty saying, he would scarify his two neighbors before a dinner was half over. |
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