5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lacerated
adjective: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: {lacerate}, {mangled},
{torn}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lacerate \Lac"er*ate\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
lacerated \lacerated\ adjective
torn roughly; -- of skin.
Syn: mangled, torn.
[WordNet 1.5]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "lacerated":
afflicted, aggravated, agonized, battlemented, broken, burned,
burst, busted, checked, chipped, chopped, clawed, cleft, cloven,
convulsed, cracked, crazed, crenate, crenated, crenellated,
crenulate, crucified, cut, damaged, dentate, dentated,
deteriorated, distressed, embittered, embrasured, erose,
exacerbated, gashed, harmed, harrowed, hurt, hurting, impaired,
imperfect, in bits, in distress, in pain, in pieces, in shards,
in shreds, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lancinated,
mangled, martyred, martyrized, mutilated, nicked, notched,
on the rack, pained, quartered, racked, ragged, rent, ripped,
riven, ruptured, savaged, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalded, scalloped,
scorched, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, severed,
shattered, shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split,
sprung, suffering, tattered, the worse for, toothed, tormented,
torn, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, weakened, worse,
worse off, worsened, wounded, wrung
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