Horrify vs Scarify - What's the difference?
horrify | scarify |
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
(obsolete, or, nonstandard) To scar.
(obsolete, or, nonstandard) Denude, or lay waste to.
(horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to dethatch.
(horticulture) To damage the testa (seed coat) of a seed by cutting, scraping, chemicals, hot water, or fire to allow permeation of water and faster germination.
As verbs the difference between horrify and scarify
is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while scarify is (obsolete|or|nonstandard) to scar.horrify
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- The haunted house was horrifying , from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
