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lacerate

[ verb las-uh-reyt; adjective las-uh-reyt, -er-it ]

verb (used with object)

lacerated, lacerating.
  1. to tear roughly; mangle:

    The barbed wire lacerated his hands.

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  2. to distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly:

    His bitter criticism lacerated my heart.



adjective

lacerate

verb

  1. to tear (the flesh, etc) jaggedly
  2. to hurt or harrow (the feelings, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. having edges that are jagged or torn; lacerated

    lacerate leaves

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ, adjective
  • ˈپ, adjective
  • ˌˈٲ, noun
  • ˌˈپDz, noun
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  • 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
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lacerate1

1535–45; from Latin ٳܲ, past participle of “to tear up” (derivative of lacer “mԲ”); -ate 1
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lacerate1

C16: from Latin to tear, from lacer mangled
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Synonym Study

See maim.
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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.”

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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.

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He was locked in solitary confinement with welts “the size of a man’s finger” oozing from his lacerated back.

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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.

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Down the street, a mule lay panting on its side, its skin lacerated from shrapnel.

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