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verb
- 1. tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin): "the point had lacerated his neck" Similar
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The meaning of LACERATE is to tear or rend roughly : wound jaggedly. How to use lacerate in a sentence.
to criticize someone or attack them with words in a very powerful way: Critics have lacerated the press for getting the facts wrong in this case. As a political cartoonist, he likes to lacerate the pompous and the powerful. Fewer examples. The blow broke his jaw and lacerated his lip.
1. To rip, cut, or tear. 2. To cause deep emotional pain to; distress. adj. (-rĭt, -rāt′) 1. Torn; mangled. 2. Wounded. 3. Having jagged, deeply cut edges: lacerate leaves. [Middle English laceraten, from Latin lacerāre, lacerāt-, from lacer, torn.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
The verb lacerate means to cut or tear. So the envelope that gave you that nasty paper cut? It lacerated your finger. Something usually needs to be sharp or jagged to lacerate you, like broken glass or a sharp stick. You won't be getting lacerated anytime soon by lace or cotton balls, that's for sure.
lacerate something to cut skin or part of the body with something sharp. His hand had been badly lacerated.
to criticize someone or attack them with words in a very powerful way: Critics have lacerated the press for getting the facts wrong in this case. As a political cartoonist, he likes to lacerate the pompous and the powerful. Fewer examples. The blow broke his jaw and lacerated his lip.
The earliest known use of the verb lacerate is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for lacerate is from before 1425, in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie . lacerate is a borrowing from Latin.
LACERATE meaning: to cut or tear (someone's flesh) deeply or roughly sometimes used figuratively.
noun [countable, uncountable] She suffered multiple lacerations to the face. See lacerate in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Definition of lacerate verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
lacerate definition: 1. to make deep cuts in someone's skin: 2. a cut. Learn more.
