Antonyms for scarify
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : skar-uh-fahy |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈskær əˌfaɪ |
Definition of scarify
Origin :- mid-15c., "make incisions in the bark of a tree," from Middle French scarifier "score, scrape" (leather or hide), 14c., from Late Latin scarificare (see scarification). The sense "cover with scars" (1680s) is a sense-shift from influence of scar (v.). Related: Scarified; scarifier; scarifying.
- verb slam
- verb frighten
- Sometimes it may be necessary to scarify the gums, or to apply leeches to them.
- Extract from : « Popular Technology, Vol. I (of 2) » by Edward Hazen
- He bobbed at once, but she hastened to the door to scarify him.
- Extract from : « Tommy and Grizel » by J.M. Barrie
- Their mode of obtaining charity was to go barefoot and scarify their heels so that the blood might show.
- Extract from : « Haunted London » by Walter Thornbury
- Perhaps the stinging words of last night had at last sunk deep enough to scarify his self-esteem.
- Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies
- To relieve their wearied legs and feet after long marches, they scarify the former with sharp flints.
- Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- When fatigued by travel they scarify their legs with a sharpened reed or snakes' teeth.
- Extract from : « The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 » by Hubert Howe Bancroft
- Dickens is going to put an article on the subject in Household Words, in order to scarify the rascally bookseller.
- Extract from : « George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) » by George Eliot
- Nevertheless, he knows how to scarify a petitioner till he has hardly a whole stitch left on his body.
- Extract from : « The Mantle and Other Stories » by Nicholas Gogol
- And were not these instances enough to scarify any man's imagination, and shiver his every nerve?
- Extract from : « The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. » by E. Rameur
- His political jingles were the delight or vexation of partisans as they happened to ridicule or scarify this side or that.
- Extract from : « Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions » by Slason Thompson
Synonyms for scarify
- affright
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- attack
- awe
- blister
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- burn someone's ears
- castigate
- chill
- chill to the bone
- cow
- crawl all over
- curdle the blood
- damn
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disburb
- discomfort
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- disquiet
- drub
- excoriate
- faze
- flay
- horrify
- intimidate
- lambaste
- lash
- lash into
- make blood run cold
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's hair stand on end
- make teeth chatter
- pan
- panic
- perturb
- petrify
- pin someone's ears back
- put someone on the griddle
- put someone on the hot seat
- rake over the coals
- read the riot act to
- repel
- rip into
- scare
- scare away
- scare off
- scare the daylights out of
- scare to death
- scathe
- scorch
- score
- scourge
- shoot down
- silly
- slap
- slash
- spook
- startle
- stiff
- strike terror into
- terrify
- terrorize
- unhinge
- unnerve
- vilify
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