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Lacerate

Lăç'er-āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. LACERATED; p. pr. & vb. n. LACERATING.] [Lat. lacerare, laceratum, from lacer, mangled, lacerated: It. lacerare, Sp. lacerar, Fr. lacérer.] To tear; to rend; to separate by violence or tearing; as, to lacerate the flesh; hence, to wound; to injure or afflict; as, to lacerate the heart.

Lăc'er-ate or Lăc'er-ā'ted, p. a.

participial adjective

p. a. [Lat. laceratus, p. p. of lace- rare.]

Rent; torn; mangled.
(Bot.) Having the edge variously cut into irregular segments; as, a lacerated leaf.