lacerate
verb (used with object)
to tear roughly; mangle.
had lacerated
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past perfectof lacerate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He looked furtively at the scar on his own hand, the hand which the leper in Maganguey had lacerated that dreadful night, and which often burned and ached as if seared by a hot iron.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
But if my first confession had lacerated my feelings, what was it to this one?
From The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional by Father Chiniquy
Some painful chord was touched, and he appeared to understand, as well he might, by what word with two meanings he had lacerated a feeling.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
The cross had been worn with the jewelled front upon his bosom instead of the smooth back, and the sharp facets of the cross had lacerated the scarred flesh underneath in a most cruel manner.
From Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
Time, the great healer of all wounds, the great reconciler to all fates, the great arbitrator of all disputes, had almost lost to him those tenderest ties which had lacerated his poor heart.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by John R. (John Roy) Musick
