Definitions for lacerates

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lacerates lac·er·ate

Spelling: [verb las-uh-reyt; adjective Lacerates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 556 anagrams from letters in lacerates (aaceelrst).

Definitions for lacerates

adjective

1. lacerated.

verb (used with object)

1. to tear roughly; mangle:
2. to distress or torture mentally or emotionally; wound deeply; pain greatly:

Origin of lacerates

1535-45; Latin lacerātus, past participle of lacerāre to tear up (derivative of lacer mangled); see -ate¹

Examples for lacerates

Is there now some “thorn in the flesh” sent to lacerate thee?

They lacerate their bodies, but do not extract the front teeth.

And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance.

Calyptra minute, lacerate, persistent at the base of the capsule.

I forgot to lacerate your beaver hats, but that is soon done.

These spurs do not lacerate the horse, as their points are blunt.

A man—I use the word in its fullest sense—does not wish to lacerate his foe, however earnestly he may desire his life.

There remain, and always will remain, more than enough to lacerate and kill him.

“Rails” and “lacerate,” two other words swiftly elected for pillory, were classic Tejpal, overblown, mannered, theatrical.

The power of individuals to lacerate their fellow-creatures is given to them by the community.