Lacerate

Quick meaning: Lacerate is a verb meaning (transitive) To tear, rip or wound.

Meaning

(transitive) To tear, rip or wound.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
2. (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
3. (obsolete) Mangled, torn, lacerated.

Example Sentences

The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.

Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed

But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;

When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.

Word Forms

• lacerates
• lacerating
• lacerated

Synonyms for lacerate

Depending on context, synonyms include rough, mangled, injured, lacerated, torn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mangled, rough, injured, torn, tear, foramen.

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