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lacerate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈlæ.sɚ.ɛɪt/Part of speech adjective, verbSorted aaceelrtStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. having edges that are jagged from injury

Word origin

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).

Used in a sentence

  • Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed
  • But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;
  • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.

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