Difference between damaged and scarify
Definitions
adjective
- harmed or injured or spoiled
- being unjustly brought into disrepute
Examples
They estimate the cost of repairing the damaged roads at ￡1 million.
Unless the damaged areas are quickly revegetated, the eroded soils sink below sea level and the area becomes open water.
Furthermore, a series of strategic gaffs have further badly damaged the already squalid reputation which the industry has earned for itself.
Definitions
verb
- puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals
- scratch the surface of
- break up
Examples
I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds.
However, I don't want to scarify the community's open discussion just for those annoying spams.
Reverse is better for controlled cutting, pulverizing clods, sorting debris from soil, and scarifying hard ground.
