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Lacerate   /lˈæsərˌeɪt/   Listen
Lacerate

verb
(past & past part. lacerated; pres. part. lacerating)
1.
Cut or tear irregularly.
2.
Deeply hurt the feelings of; distress.





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"Lacerate" Quotes from Famous Books



... rigorously fenced-in. Richest clover-fields tempt his eye; but to him they are forbidden pasture: either pining in progressive starvation, he must stand; or, in mad exasperation, must rush to and fro, leaping against sheer stone-walls, which he cannot leap over, which only lacerate and lame him; till at last, after thousand attempts and endurances, he, as if by miracle, clears his way; not indeed into luxuriant and luxurious clover, yet into a certain bosky wilderness where existence is still possible, ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... struck, the momentum would cause the copper in the outer disc to flatten, and allow the point of the stem to strike and explode the fulminating powder, when the bullet would be rent into fragments which would lacerate the victim. ...
— A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65 • Horace Edwin Hayden


Words linked to "Lacerate" :   injure, injured, offend, wound, bust, mangled, spite, hurt, laceration, tear, bruise, rough, snap, rupture


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