scarify
verb (used with object)
to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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Little water came from one leg, and they will scarify it again.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough