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Scarify

verb
(past & past part. scarified; pres. part. scarifying)
1.
Puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals.
2.
Scratch the surface of.
3.
Break up.





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... is one bit of verse in the foregoing sample column of Field's political paragraphs, it does scant justice to his most effective weapon. His political jingles were the delight or vexation of partisans as they happened to ridicule or scarify this side or that. He was on terms of personal friendship with General John A. Logan, whose admiration for General Grant he shared to the fullest degree. But this never restrained Field from taking all sorts of waggish liberties with ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson


Words linked to "Scarify" :   mark, puncture, scar, nock, score, loosen


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