scarify
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The seed packets instruct you to scarify the seeds and presoak them before planting.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
Ricky promised that his Rollerblades wouldn’t scarify the floor. unique.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Even on a good day, Pugs- ley is a restive child. scarify.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Primarily, to scarify is to cut or scratch marks into the surface of something.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
A memory tip: If you scarify something, you leave scars.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
The girl’s determination to own one of Jones’ paintings made her realize the struggles and scarifies she made to become an artist were paying off.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 19, 2020
He scarifies or tattoos his naked body with figures upon his back, arms, legs, and face to represent an idea of beauty.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
And the torch he carries blazing,— Truly 'tis a tiny one; Yet, that tiny torch upraising, Cupid scarifies the sun!
From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
When bitten, the sufferer tightens these cords above the injured part, which he immediately scarifies; thus they act as tourniquets.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
They also scarified their future by giving away two 1st round picks, two 2nd round picks and 3 players.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
He devised both a hectic manner of performance and a visual art to match: Losey’s screens are scarified and striated, a tangle of turbulent textures in which the characters are seemingly inescapably caught.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 6, 2019
Meanwhile, Booker is walking around Columbia with two letters, “AD,” scarified onto his hand.
From Forbes ● Mar. 27, 2013
Among the visual high points is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Neo-Expressionist painting of an immense scarified head in the fourth of 12 galleries.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2012
There were eight of them, including the one with the scarified face, and there were ten of us boys.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
And some seeds need special techniques for successful germination, including fermenting or scarifying.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
Despite the NCAA’s scarifying prediction that it would lead to the immediate death of autumn, the season is coming on.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
Although her role has been considerably truncated, the great Ms. Bertish is transfixing as Queen Margaret, hurling her curses on the court with a scarifying sense of implacable hate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2012
Johnson’s voice was not particularly powerful – certainly it was no match for the scarifying wail of a Patton or a Howlin’ Wolf.
From Chicago Tribune ● May 3, 2011
He was a kind husband, an affectionate father, a warm friend—an open, honorable, scarifying opponent.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
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