couturer

Couturer is a rare, mostly literary verb meaning to scar or mark with a long wound-like line — a face couturé de cicatrices is one crossed with visible scars. It's built on couture (seam/scar) and almost always appears in its past participle form describing a scarred face or landscape.

• Son visage était couturé de cicatrices. — His face was scarred with marks.
• La montagne, couturée de crevasses, dominait la vallée. — The mountain, scarred with crevices, towered over the valley.
• Les combats avaient couturé le sol de tranchées. — The fighting had scarred the ground with trenches.

This verb is almost always used descriptively in its past participle (couturé/couturée) rather than as an active action a subject performs — a learner reaching for je couture quelque chose in ordinary speech would sound distinctly odd; balafrer or the plain adjective marqué is what's actually used for everyday scarring.