Sekirov Dictionary

lacerate

/ˈlæ.sɚ.ət/

adjective 2
/ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/ verb 2
forms 3

adjective2

•
Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
•
(no longer used) Mangled, torn, lacerated.
- 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 — 1805

lacerate

/ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/

verb2

•
To tear, rip or wound.
- Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed — 2019
(figurative) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.

forms

lacerated · lacerating · lacerates

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