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scarify en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskæ.ɹɪˌfaɪ/ (UK)
  • /ˈskɑː.ɹɪˌfaɪ/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

From French scarifier, from Late Latin scarificāre, from Latin scarifāre (“to scarify”), from Ancient Greek σκαριφᾶσθαι (skariphâsthai, “scratch”), from σκάριφος (skáriphos, “writing, drawing, sketching”). Unrelated to scar.

Meanings

  1. To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
  2. To make scratches or cuts on.
    • A combing tool is used to scarify, cross-scratch, or score the surface of a scratch coat or undercoat of plaster.
  3. To make scratches or cuts on. ▸ To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
  4. To make scratches or cuts on. ▸ To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
  5. To make scratches or cuts on. ▸ To scratch, etch, burn, or cut designs into one's skin as a form of body modification.
    • Stan tried to scarify his neck with a rope His plan kinda failed, but it would've been dope 2008, Neil Cicierega, “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:
  6. (figuratively) To harrow the feelings.
  7. (nonstandard, obsolete) To scar.
  8. (nonstandard, obsolete) Denude, or lay waste to.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
scarifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scarified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scarified Tense=Past lexicographic
scarifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

scarifyingly

Translations (8)

ca esterrossar (to remove thatch) · bg разрохквам (to break up, loosen or roughen a surface) · mi karawhaea (to break up, loosen or roughen a surface) · nl verticuteren (to remove thatch) · es escarificar (to remove thatch) · pl skaryfikować (to break up, loosen or roughen a surface) · pt escarificar (to remove thatch) · pl skaryfikować (to remove thatch)

scarify en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈskæ.ɹɪˌfaɪ/ (UK)
  • /ˈskɑː.ɹɪˌfaɪ/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English scare Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English scarify From scare + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) To frighten; to scare, to terrify.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
scarifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scarifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
scarified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scarified Tense=Past lexicographic