to lacerate

Examples

• All

• The right side is lacerated and torn."

  Love & Rage (2000)

• Are you aware I have a partially lacerated liver?

  Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)

• Where the skin was not lacerated, it was as soft and pink as her own.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The tongue was lacerated in several locations.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Both of her legs are severely lacerated.

  Patriots Day (2016)

• His head had been repeatedly lacerated, and his throat appeared to have been cut.

  Blog text (33)

• He'd been severely lacerated in the face and hands and was in stable condition in the hospital.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Her son's eyes are closed, his arms lacerated, his chest wounded and crusted with blood.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Myrna had cried at the sight of him, lacerated and bruised, his dark face drawn in lines of terrible pain.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Blood drips down Jahan's face; he staggers to a nearby makeshift first-aid center, where attendants wash his lacerated back and head with water.

  Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

W

to wound

vsto lacerate

617 2.3

To cut or hurt someone's body physically

is a rough, irregular cut or tear mainly to flesh

C

to cut up

vsto lacerate

62 4.1

Cause serious harm to people or things with a sharp object

is a rough, irregular tear rather than general severe damage

M

to mangle

vsto lacerate

• NSFW

21 6.1

To badly cut, tear, or crush and cause a serious physical injury

is a rough tear or cut rather than crushing damage

Antonyms

H

to heal

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

How Severe

to mutilate

• NSFW

73 7.4

to slash

53 3.0

to lacerate

• NSFW

9 7.5

cut

1.0

to nick

33 3.5

to scratch

161 1.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology