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
A memory tip: If you scarify something, you leave scars.
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
Ricky promised that his Rollerblades wouldn’t scarify the floor. unique.
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
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
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 Field, Eugene
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
The loving bond between the scarified Antea and the tattooed Red is evident — in a tender touch or a cradled face — even as Antea is trapped in the ghost world.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
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
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
Mr. Hurt’s evolving expressions as, weary head in hand, Krapp listens to the voice on the tape recorder, draw with absolute precision a scarifying picture of the man’s shuffling, tormenting thoughts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
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
As soon as either of them appears, fix a Cupping-Glass to it without scarifying; and when that is removed, apply a suppurative Cataplasm, or Plaster of warm Gums.
From A Discourse on the Plague by Mead, Richard
