Scarify

Definitions: Scarify

Scarify

Verb

1. Puncture the skin, as, for example, in some African cultures; for ritual purposes.

2. Scar (the body) in certain cultures; "Some African tribes scarify their faces".

3. Scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds".

4. Break up, of soil.

Date "scarify" was first used: 1392. (references)

Note: Scarify \Scar"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Scarified; present participle verb or noun Scarifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	To roughen up, as a road, for repairs. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Notch	Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke.
Pain	Wring, harrow, torment, torture; bullyrag; put to the rack, put to the question; break on the wheel, rack, scarify; cruciate, crucify; convulse, agonize; barb the dart; plant a dagger in the breast, plant a thorn in one's side.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scarify

English words defined with "scarify": Scarified, Scarifying. (references)

"Scarify" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Scarify" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "scarify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkrifëroj (shorten), kritikoj ashpër (lace into, whip), gërvisht (bark, clank, clapperclaw, claw, graze, jingle, lacerate, Nick, scrabble, scratch, strum, tear). (various references)

Arabic		‏عزق, ‏خدش (abrasion, claw, graze, mark, rake, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, scratch off), ‏إنتقد بقسوة (castigate, decry, flay, flog, lapidate, pull to pieces, rap, scourge, slam, slash, squib), ‏إنتقد بشدة (come under fire, lace, pan, pick to pieces), ‏شرط الجلد. (various references)

Bulgarian		скарифицирам, разравям със скарификатор, правя нарези на. (various references)

Chinese		翻挖 (Scarified, Scarifying). (various references)

Czech		trhat (blast, gather, mammock, pick, pick(up), pluck, tug, worry). (various references)

Danish		oprive(vejbelægning) (to scarify), loesne ballasten (to scarify the ballast). (various references)

Dutch		ballast loswerken (to scarify the ballast), ballast lostmaken (to scarify the ballast), ballast lossteken (to scarify the ballast), afbikken (chip, chip off, to scarify). (various references)

Finnish		repiä (rend, rip, tear, tear off, tear out, tear to pieces, tear up, to scarify). (various references)

French		scarifier (to scarify), éreinter (scourge). (various references)

German		ritzen (carve, score, scratch, scribe, scribing, to scribe). (various references)

Greek		σκαριφεύω το δέρμα, σκαριφίζω (to scarify), χαράσσω το δέρμα, επικρίνω (animadvert, carp, censure, crab, criticise, criticism, criticize, decry, fulminate, objurgate, pan, reprove, score, upbraid), τσουγγρανίζω (claw, seam). (various references)

Hebrew		לשרוט (graze, scotch, scrape, scratch, skin, slash), לסרוט (graze, scrape, scratch, slash). (various references)

Hungarian		meghámoz (to pare, to peel), leránt (pull down, slate, to flay, to slash, to snatch off, to whip off, to yank off), bevagdal (to scarify). (various references)

Italian		scarificare. (various references)

Pig Latin		arifyscay

Portuguese		fazer incisões em, escarificar (to cultivate), atormentar (abuse, afflict, agonize, badger, bait, devil, discomfort, fret, gall, gnaw, grill, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, lay hold, martyr, mortifying, obsess, oppression, pain, persecute, pester, pother, prey, rack, tantalize, torment, torture). (various references)

Romanian		scarifica, critica zdravãn pe cineva. (various references)

Russian		сурово критиковать, оскорблять чьи-л. чувства, делать насечки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaseći (cut, incise, indent, notch, score, scotch, snick), mrcvariti. (various references)

Spanish		escarificar (to scarify), desollar (flay, skin, skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin). (various references)

Swedish		fräsa bort (to scarify). (various references)

Turkish		toprağı sürmek (plough, till), incitmek (aggrieve, cut, cut up, gall, harm, hurt, hurt deeply, injure, mortify, offend, pique, scathe, scotch, sting, strain, touch, wound), deriyi kazımak, derisini soymak (excoriate), canını yakmak (hurt, pain, rend the heart, sting), acımasızca eleştirmek (cut up, pull to pieces, slam). (various references)

Ukranian		скарифікувати, робити насічки, нещадно критикувати. (various references)

Welsh		ysgraffinio (abrade, graze). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	skariphasthai. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	scarifare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scarify": scarifying, scarifyingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scarify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sacrify, sacrisfy, sarify, scarifiy, scarity, Sharifa, Sharifi. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "scarify" (pronounced 'Scar"i*fy'): Acidify, Adsignify, Aerify, Alacrify, Angelify, Anglicify, Anglify, Arefy, Argufy, Balmify, Basify, Beatify, Bonify, Brutify, Candify, Capacify, Carnify, Celestify, Certify, Chondrify, Chylify, Chymify, Classify, Cockneyfy, Codify, Consignify, Corporify, Correctify, Countrify, Crucify, Cuffy, Daintify, Damnify, Dandify, Decalcify, Deify, Demideify, Denitrify, Devitrify, Dezincify, Diabolify, Dignify, Disacidify, Disdeify, Disedify, Disglorify, Disguisedfy, Disqualify, Dissatisfy, Dissyllabify, Diversify, Divinify, Domify, Dulcify, Duncify, Emulsify, Endamnify, Eternify, Exemplify, Fecundify, Fe-licify, Finify, Fishify, Foolify, Foresignify, Frenchify, Fumify, Glorify, gratify, Hornify, horrify, Humanify, Ignify, indemnify, Indignify, interstratify, jellify, jiffy, Labefy, Ladify, lenify, Madefy, malignify, Mercify, Mercurify, Metrify, minify, modify, mollify, Mummify, Mundify, Munify, Mystify, Neatify, Netify, Nitrify, Nobilify, Notify, Nugify, Nullify, Objectify, Obstupefy, Omnify, Overmagnify, Pacify, Personify, Preachify, Presignify, Pretypify, Putrify, ratify, Recarnify, rectify, Reedify, Refortify, Remodify, Repacify, Repurify, revivify, rubify, Russify, saccharify, Salify, Salsafy, salsify, sanctify, Sanguify, saponify, Scorify, signify, simplify, specify, speechify, squiffy, Stellify, Stiltify, Storify, stratify, stultify, stupefy, Suavify, Subdiversify, syllabify, Tabefy, taffy, Tepefy, Terrestrify, terrify, Tipsify, Torpify, Torrefy, transmogrify, uglify, Undeify, Unglorify, unify, Unnotify, Unqualify, Varify, Vilify, Vivify, Zincify. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: fairs, fairy, farci, farcy, fiars, frays, scarf, scary.
	-3 letters: airs, airy, arcs, arfs, asci, cars, cays, cris, fair, fays, fiar, firs, fisc, fray, racy, rays, rias, rifs, ryas, sari, scar, scry.
	-4 letters: air, ais, arc, arf, ars, ays, car, cay, cis, cry, far, fas, fay, fir, fry, icy, ifs, ras, ray, ria, rif, rya, sac, say, sic, sir, sri, yar.
	-5 letters: ai, ar, as, ay, fa, if, is, si, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-r-s-y"
	+1 letter: crayfish.
	+2 letters: fireclays.
	+3 letters: crayfishes, reclassify, saccharify, scarifying.
	+4 letters: fractiously.
	+5 letters: confiscatory, fascicularly, forensically, overclassify, satisfactory, scarifyingly.
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