scarify
verb (used with object)
to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.
unscarified
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a word derived from
scarify.
Example Sentences
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But O! how truly Shakespearian is the opening of Macbeth's character given in the unpossessedness of Banquo's mind, wholly present to the present object,—an unsullied, unscarified mirror!
From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To some of the portions of wood, young shells adhered, but others bore, evidently, marks of fire; showing the black scarified parts, and those left untouched or unscarified, very plainly.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
