scarify
- v puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
The men in some African tribes scarify their faces - v scratch the surface of
scarify seeds - v break up
scarify soil
- And an interview with him is half-unprintable; he will often scarify some person or some place, and then say: ''But please.
- Dig a hole about a foot deep and half as wide, and scarify the sides with a garden fork or hand cultivator.
- Any thing have to scarify something, no perfect thing.