scarify

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, or) To scar.
  2. Verb.  (obsolete, or) Denude, or lay waste to.
  3. Verb.  (horticulture) To remove thatch (build-up of organic matter on the soil) from a lawn, to de-thatch.

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