lacerate

present singular third person lacerates · participle present lacerating · participle past lacerated · past lacerated

1. transitiveTo tear, rip or wound.

   Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed

   2019, “Human Target”, performed by Thy Art Is Murder

2. figurativelytransitiveTo defeat thoroughly; to thrash.

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   When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.

   2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian

1. not comparableobsoleteMangled, torn, lacerated.

   But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;

   1805, Robert Southey, “Canto II. VIII.”, in Madoc, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and A[rchibald] Constable and Co, […], by James Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, part I (Madoc in Wales), page 255

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   But as they detrected the doing of theyr duetie, so god euer graunted vnto this realme force to compell them thervnto within memory, not withstandyng any theyr interruption by resistence, which vnto the tyme of our progenitour Henry the VI. neuer indured so longe as it made intermission within tyme of mynde, wherby the possession myght seme to be enpaired: from the tyme of Henry the VI vnto the seuenth yere of our reigne, how our realme hathe ben for a season lacerate and torne by diuersitie of titles, tyl our time and syns by warre outwardly vexed and troubled, The story is so lamentable for some parte therof, as were tedious to reherse.

   1542, Henry VIII, The Declaration of the just causes of the warre with the Scotts (as printed in the Grenville copy 5945 in the British Museum Library)

2. not comparablebiologyJagged, as if torn or lacerated.

   The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.