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Meanings of lacerate in English

Having edges that are jagged from injury.

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Examples for "torn"
Examples for "torn"
1
Are we willing to accept war torn Ferguson as the new normal?
Ebony
2
The water had torn almost all the way to the east side.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
3
It was torn down in 1984 by the Communist East German government.
Reuters
4
There were dreadful lacerations; the skin was torn in strips and shreds.
Can Such Things Be?
5
I've been feeling somewhat torn about our meeting in your office today.
The abduction
1
We expected to find the mangled body of Hector in the morning.
A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari, and Other Tales of South-West ...
2
Seeing the mangled bodies of James Peck and others affected me profoundly.
Ebony
3
Services resumed on the busy track after the mangled coaches were removed.
Reuters
4
Where his strong right arm should have been was a mangled stump.
Dragons of autumn twilight
5
We saw the results last weekend in horrific crashes and mangled metal.
The Irish Times
1
Never being given enough time to heal before being lacerated open again.
Crown of Slaves
2
The muscle on the right side of the neck was badly lacerated.
In the Roaring Fifties
3
In his left side was a terrible lacerated wound, exposing the heart.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
4
Natalie blocked each attack, but already her lacerated arms ached from fatigue.
Carrion comfort
5
There is nostalgia in it, the nostalgia of a sick, lacerated soul.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
Usage of lacerate in English
1
Those who lacerate our simple pleasures, relentlessly, our fleshy ways and desires.
The Irish Times
2
The tearing noise of the sergeant's voice continued to lacerate his body.
The Prussian Officer
3
I forgot to lacerate your beaver hats, but that is soon done.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
4
They lacerate their bodies, but do not extract the front teeth.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume...
5
Her own sex will be first to lacerate her heart with her shame.
Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life
6
No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities-sensibilitiesprecious to me as my own.
The Woman in White
7
Authors have feelings, which even scholastic young maidens cannot be permitted to lacerate.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 / A Magazine ...
8
Within moments she had filled her fist with a lacerate disspell.
Spellwright
9
Is he to be the wolf that will one day lacerate my breast?
Napoleon and Blücher: An Historical Novel
10
Why should I lacerate their little souls with a useless leave-taking?
Historical Miniatures
11
And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
12
Savage indignation did not lacerate his breast nor was he given to finger wagging.
The Irish Times
13
They drain an animal's blood, lacerate it for no reason.
The Irish Times
14
Those eyes found him and their hooded gaze seemed to lacerate him like knives.
Blood and Bone
15
Resist and lacerate the logic of Winston's world by making yourself heard and be seen.
Radio NZ
16
By this time, she had composed another lacerate disspell.
Spellwright
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