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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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lacerated \lacerated\ adj.
torn roughly; -- of skin.

Syn: mangled, torn.
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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.
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