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lacerated
[las-uh-rey-tid]
adjective
mangled; jagged; torn.
pained; wounded; tortured.
lacerated sensibilities.
Botany, Zoology.having the edge variously cut as if torn into irregular segments, as a leaf.
Other 51Թ Forms
- unlacerated adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lacerated1
Example Sentences
"I broke my toe, five ribs, I lacerated my spleen, and I've got a big hole in the back of my leg that got badly infected," she said.
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.
He was locked in solitary confinement with welts “the size of a man’s finger” oozing from his lacerated back.
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.
Down the street, a mule lay panting on its side, its skin lacerated from shrapnel.
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