See Also: lacerate(medicine)
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lacerate(dictionary)

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lacerate verb trans. LME.
[Latin lacerat- pa. ppl stem of lacerare, from lacer mangled, torn: see -ATE3.]
Rip, mangle (esp. flesh or tissues); tear to pieces, tear up; fig. afflict, distress, harrow.
B. England Jagged edges that lacerated their arms..leaving slivers of..cane..in the flesh. V. Nabokov He was lacerated with pity.
lacerable adjective able to be lacerated M17.
lace'ration noun the action or process of lacerating flesh etc.; an instance of this; an open wound in which the skin (and underlying tissue) has been torn rather than cut: L16.
lacerative adjective (rare) tending to lacerate M17.