lacerate

Speech parts

1. lacerate - Adjective

2. lacerate - Verb

4. lacerate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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.

Alt. of Lacerated

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lance cleave maul rend gash cut knife dagger wound tear scratch slash slit claw injure

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Antonyms

weld assist smooth recover repair cure

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Hypernyms

spite wound tear snap bust rupture

Derivatives

lacerated lacerating

Examples

Swift has sailed into his rest Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler he Served human liberty. William Butler Yeats

It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. Winston Churchill

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Close letter words and terms

lacerability lacerable lacerant lacerated lacerately lacerater