10 Letter Words for Scarifying
sacrifying, scarifying
8 Letter Words for Scarifying
fairings, farcings, fraising, frayings, scarfing
7 Letter Words for Scarifying
airings, arcings, arising, arsinic, carings, carnify, cryings, facings, fairing, farcing, farcins, farsing, firings, francis, fraying, frisian, fryings, nigrify, racings, raginis, raising, raisiny, sacrify, sacring, sairing, scarify, scaring, scrinia, scrying, signary, signify, syringa
6 Letter Words for Scarifying
acrisy, agynic, airify, airing, anisic, arcing, arcsin, argify, aricin, arsing, cairns, cairny, caring, casing, casini, casiri, cigars, cising, craigs, crying, facing, fagins, farcin, faring, faying, ficary, ficins, figary, finary, fincas, firing, francs, fringy, frisca, frying, gasify, grains, grainy, grasni, gynics, icings, ignify, infair, racing, ragini, raisin, raying, riancy, ricing, ricins, rising, safing, sanify, saring, saying, scarfy, sinaic, sinify, sirian, siring, syriac, syrian
5 Letter Words for Scarifying
acing, acini, acris, agric, agrin, airns, angry, argin, ascii, ascry, async, ayins, cains, cairn, cangs, cangy, canis, carns, carny, cigar, crags, craig, crain, crang, crans, crany, crays, cyans, fagin, fains, fairs, fairy, fancy, fangs, fangy, farci, farcy, farsi, fasci, fiars, ficin, finca, finis, firca, firns, frags, franc, frayn, frays, frigs, frisa, gains, gairs, gansy, garni, giris, girns, girny, gnars, gracy, grain, grans, grays, grias, grins, grisy, gynic, gyric, icing, ignis, incas, incra, infra, irani, irian, iring, isiac, nacry, naifs, nairy, narcs, naric, naris, niais, nific, nigra, niris, ragis, rains, rainy, rangy, ricin, rings, ringy, sacry, sairy, sarif, sarin, scarf, scarn, scary, scian, scrag, scran, scray, scrin, sifac, signa, sigyn, sinai, snarf, snary, syria, yagis, yangs, yarns
4 Letter Words for Scarifying
agcy, agin, agni, ains, airn, airs, airy, anis, ansi, arcs, arfs, aris, arni, asci, asin, ayin, cain, cair, cang, cans, cany, carf, carn, cars, cays, cigs, cira, crag, cran, cray, crig, crin, cris, cyan, facy, fags, fain, fair, fang, fans, fars, fasc, fays, fiar, fica, figs, fini, fins, firn, firs, firy, fisc, frag, fras, fray, frig, fris, gain, gair, gari, garn, gars, gary, gays, gins, giri, girn, gnar, graf, gran, gras, gray, grin, gris, gyri, inca, incr, inga, inia, iran, iris, iyar, nagi, nags, naif, naig, nais, narc, nary, nasi, nays, ngai, nisi, nyas, racy, ragi, rags, rain, rais, rang, rays, rias, ricy, rifs, riga, rigs, ring, rins, risc, ryas, sagy, saic, sain, sair, sang, sari, scan, scar, scry, sian, sign, sina, sing, siri, snag, snar, snig, srac, sync, yagi, yags, yair, yang, yarn, yins, yirn
3 Letter Words for Scarifying
acy, agr, ags, agy, ain, air, ais, anc, ans, any, arc, arf, arg, arn, ars, ary, asg, ayr, ays, caf, cag, cai, can, car, cay, cfi, cfs, cgs, cia, cif, cig, cir, cis, cns, crs, cry, csi, fac, fag, fan, far, fas, fay, fcs, fcy, fgn, fig, fin, fir, fra, frg, fri, frs, fry, fys, gan, gar, gas, gay, gif, gin, gis, gns, gra, grf, grs, gry, gyn, icy, ifc, ifs, ign, inc, inf, ing, ins, ira, irs, isn, naf, nag, nar, nas, nay, nig, nis, nys, raf, rag, rai, ran, ras, ray, rfs, ria, rif, rig, rin, rna, rya, sac, sag, sai, san, sar, say, scf, sci, scr, sic, sif, sig, sin, sir, sny, sri, syn, syr, yag, yan, yar, yas, yin, yis, yrs
Definitions for Scarifying
[1] to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin, a wound, etc.), as in vaccination.
[2] to lacerate by severe criticism.
[3] to loosen (the soil) with a type of cultivator.
[4] to hasten the sprouting of (hard-covered seeds) by making incisions in the seed coats.
[5] to break up (a road surface).
[6] surgery to make tiny punctures or superficial incisions in (the skin or other tissue), as for inoculating
[7] agriculture to break up and loosen (soil) to a shallow depth to scratch or abrade the outer surface of (seeds) to increase water absorption or hasten germination
[8] to wound with harsh criticism
[9] (tr) informal to make scared; frighten
Words related to Scarifying
scarifyblister, excoriate, castigate, scourge, drub, flay, slap, attack, score, damn, lambaste, slash, pan, lash, vilify, scorch, perturb, appall, unnerve, astound
Words nearby Scarifying
scarifyscarfpin, scarfskin, scargill, scarification, scarificator, scarify, scarious, scarlatina, scarlatina hemorrhagica, scarlatinella, scarlatiniform
Origin of Scarifying
1400–50; late Middle English scarifie < Middle French scarifier < Late Latin scarīficāre, alteration of Latin scarīfāre, scarīphāre to make scratches < Greek skarīphâsthai to sketch, derivative of skárīphos stylus; see -ify
Words that may be confused with Scarifying
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, scarifyscarify, scorify
Other words from Scarifying
scar·i·fi·er , noun
un·scar·i·fied , adjective
Word origin for Scarifying
C18: from scare + -ify
Synonyms for Scarifying
attack, blister, castigate, damn, drub, excoriate, flay, lambaste, lash, pan, scorch, score, scourge, slap, slash, vilify, burn someone's ears, crawl all over, lash into, 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, rip into, scathe, shoot down
