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lacerated

[ las-uh-rey-tid ]

adjective

  1. mangled; jagged; torn.
  2. pained; wounded; tortured:

    lacerated sensibilities.

  3. Botany, Zoology. having the edge variously cut as if torn into irregular segments, as a leaf.


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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·İ·e adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lacerated1

First recorded in 1600–10; lacerate + -ed 2
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He left the room, returning with a metronome whose loud, mechanical clicking lacerated the otherwise-fine mood being created by a Bach record on the turntable.

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He was locked in solitary confinement with welts “the size of a man’s finger” oozing from his lacerated back.

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These included a fractured skull with associated bleeding to the brain and retinal bleeding; 27 rib fractures; fractures to both thigh bones; fractures to both shin bones; fractured wrist and a lacerated liver.

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Down the street, a mule lay panting on its side, its skin lacerated from shrapnel.

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Stone lacerated his spleen Feb. 20 and didn’t return to full-contact practice until two days before the series opener.

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