Lacerated

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lacerate \Lac"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacerated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Lacerating}.] [L. laceratus, p. p. of lacerare to
     lacerate, fr. lacer mangled, lacerated; cf. Gr. ? a rent,
     rending, ? to tear; perh. akin to E. slay.]
     To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to
     lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to


     lacerate the heart.
     [1913 Webster] Lacerate

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lacerate \Lac"er*ate\, Lacerated \Lac"er*a`ted\, p. a. [L.
     laceratus, p. p.]
     1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.
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              By each other's fury lacerate         --Southey.
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     2. (Bot. & Zool.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end,
        or along the edge.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  lacerated \lacerated\ adj.
     torn roughly; -- of skin.
  
     Syn: mangled, torn.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lacerated
       adj : having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: {lacerate}, {mangled},
              {torn}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "lacerated":
     afflicted, aggravated, agonized, battlemented, broken, burned,
     burst, busted, checked, chipped, chopped, clawed, cleft, cloven,
     convulsed, cracked, crazed, crenate, crenated, crenellated,
     crenulate, crucified, cut, damaged, dentate, dentated,
     deteriorated, distressed, embittered, embrasured, erose,
     exacerbated, gashed, harmed, harrowed, hurt, hurting, impaired,
     imperfect, in bits, in distress, in pain, in pieces, in shards,
     in shreds, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lancinated,
     mangled, martyred, martyrized, mutilated, nicked, notched,
     on the rack, pained, quartered, racked, ragged, rent, ripped,
     riven, ruptured, savaged, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalded, scalloped,
     scorched, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, severed,
     shattered, shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split,
     sprung, suffering, tattered, the worse for, toothed, tormented,
     torn, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, weakened, worse,
     worse off, worsened, wounded, wrung