scarified

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adjective

damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted

“Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.”

OriginEnglish scarify ← Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. damaged, barren, denuded, scarred, wasted

    Gallager tossed another drink down his scarified gullet.

    1 more example

    The scarified wasteland looked like a battle had been fought there — which, in fact, it had.

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of scarify

Origin

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

From scarify + -ed.

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APA

scarified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarified

MLA

“scarified.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarified. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scarified,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scarified.

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