scarify
verb (used with object)
to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.
scarified
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past participleof scarify.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof scarify.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
scarifyverb (used with object)to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.
Example Sentences
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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
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
