lacerate
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lacerate
- /ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/
- /ˈlæ.sɚ.ət/
Where it comes from
The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
verb lacerates · lacerating · lacerated
- To tear, rip or wound. Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed
- To defeat thoroughly; to thrash. 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 Southampt
adjective
- Mangled, torn, lacerated. 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
- Jagged, as if torn or lacerated. The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
