[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections:The smallpox vaccine, which was administered by scarifying the skin, left a telltale scar on the upper arm.During the procedure of wet cupping, the practitioner scarifies the skin after suction.", "to scratch, etch, cut, or burn designs or images into the skin in order to create permanent decorative or symbolic scars.", "to lacerate by severe criticism.", "to loosen (the soil) with a type of cultivator.", "to hasten the sprouting of (hard-covered seeds) by making incisions in the seed coats.", "to break up (a road surface)."]}]