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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lacerate \Lac"er*ate\, Lacerated \Lac"er*a`ted\, p. a. [L.
laceratus, p. p.]
1. Rent; torn; mangled; as a lacerated wound.
By each other's fury lacerate --Southey.
2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the
end or along the edge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lacerate \Lac"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lacerated}; p. pr &
vb n. {Lacerating} (?>).] [L. laceratus, p. p. of lacerare
to lacerate, fr lacer mangled, lacerated; cf Gr ? a rent,
rending, ? to tear; perh. akin to E. slay.]
To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as to
lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as to
lacerate the heart.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
lacerate
adj 1: irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"
2: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: {lacerated},
{mangled}, {torn}]
v : cut or tear irregularly
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