Definitions for scarify

scarify scar·i·fy

Spelling: [skar-uh-fahy]
IPA: /ˈskær əˌfaɪ/

Scarify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in scarify (acfirsy).

Definitions for scarify

verb (used with object)

  1. to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
  2. to lacerate by severe criticism.
  3. to loosen (the soil) with a type of cultivator.
  4. to hasten the sprouting of (hard-covered seeds) by making incisions in the seed coats.
  5. to break up (a road surface).

Origin of scarify

1400-50; late Middle English scarifie Middle French scarifier Late Latin scarīficāre, alteration of Latin scarīfāre, scarīphāre to make scratches Greek skarīphâsthai to sketch, derivative of

Examples for scarify

Dickens is going to put an article on the subject in Household Words, in order to scarify the rascally bookseller.

He bobbed at once, but she hastened to the door to scarify him.

To relieve their wearied legs and feet after long marches, they scarify the former with sharp flints.

Nevertheless, he knows how to scarify a petitioner till he has hardly a whole stitch left on his body.

Perhaps the stinging words of last night had at last sunk deep enough to scarify his self-esteem.

Sometimes it may be necessary to scarify the gums, or to apply leeches to them.

Their mode of obtaining charity was to go barefoot and scarify their heels so that the blood might show.

His political jingles were the delight or vexation of partisans as they happened to ridicule or scarify this side or that.

When fatigued by travel they scarify their legs with a sharpened reed or snakes' teeth.

And were not these instances enough to scarify any man's imagination, and shiver his every nerve?

Word Value for scarify
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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