<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to make scratches or superficial incisions in (the skin), to produce an immune response or administer certain injections</li><li>to scratch, etch, cut, or burn designs or images into the skin in order to create permanent decorative or symbolic scars</li><li>to lacerate by severe criticism</li><li>to loosen (the soil) with a type of cultivator</li><li>to hasten the sprouting of (hard-covered seeds) by making incisions in the seed coats</li><li>to break up (a road surface)</li></ul>