Etymology

scarified

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Today it means: damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted Full definition →

English scarify ← Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
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The story

  1. Englishscare
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Proto-Italic*θakos
  4. Englishscarify
  5. English todayscarified

From scarify + -ed.

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