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lacerate
[ verb las-uh-reyt; adjective las-uh-reyt, -er-it ]
verb (used with object)
- to tear roughly; mangle:
The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
Synonyms:
- to distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly:
His bitter criticism lacerated my heart.
adjective
lacerate
verb
- to tear (the flesh, etc) jaggedly
- to hurt or harrow (the feelings, etc)
adjective
- having edges that are jagged or torn; lacerated
lacerate leaves
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
- ˈپ, adjective
- ˌˈٲ, noun
- ˌˈپDz, noun
Other yvlogs From
- İ·· adjective
- ·····ٲ [las-er-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- ···پ [las, -, uh, -rey-tiv, -er-, uh, -tiv], adjective
- -İ·iԲ adjective
- ܲ·İ·iԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of lacerate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
One of the most lacerating fictional critiques of the American dream remains the song “Remember My Forgotten Man” and its accompanying set piece in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1933.”
Instead, with deep feeling and lacerating and gentle words, Leigh creates a world that, like the vast, mysterious one hovering outside its frame, can seem agonizingly empty if you can’t see the people in it.
He was locked in solitary confinement with welts “the size of a man’s finger” oozing from his lacerated back.
These included a fractured skull with associated bleeding to the brain and retinal bleeding; 27 rib fractures; fractures to both thigh bones; fractures to both shin bones; fractured wrist and a lacerated liver.
Down the street, a mule lay panting on its side, its skin lacerated from shrapnel.
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