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
A memory tip: If you scarify something, you leave scars.
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
Even on a good day, Pugs- ley is a restive child. scarify.
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 Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
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
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
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
Today, the shore at Port Gamble where the mill used to be is a scarified landscape awaiting its next chapter.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 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
If you’re willing to have your vague impressions of the dispossessed brought into scarifying focus, read this novel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2016
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
The doctor despaired of me after having tried everything; blood letting, cupping and scarifying, poultices, ice, and every possible remedy, without any improvement.
From Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile
