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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