Lacerate
['læsəreɪt] or ['læsəret]
Definition
(verb.) cut or tear irregularly.
(verb.) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; 'his lacerating remarks'.
(adj.) having edges that are jagged from injury .
(adj.) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; 'lacerate leaves' .
Edited by Dorothy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
(p. a.) Alt. of Lacerated
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Tear, sever, mangle, rend, lancinate, laniate, claw, tear asunder, tear to pieces.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TEAR]
Typed by Gilda
Definition
v.t. to tear: to rend: to wound: to afflict.—adjs. Lac′erable that may be lacerated; Lac′erant harrowing; Lac′erate -d rent torn: (bot.) having the edges cut into irregular segments.—n. Lacerā′tion act of lacerating: the rent made by tearing.—adj. Lac′erative tearing: having power to tear.
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Examples
- No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities--sensibilities precious to me as my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- These said that the choir would keep up their lacerating attempts at melody until they would bring down a storm some day that would sink the ship. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am conscious of a terrible necessity for lacerating those sympathies by referring to domestic events of a very melancholy kind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Torn clothes, lacerated faces, dusty shoes, exhausted looks, and, above all, the horse. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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