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 Stocking, Charles Francis
I had but one thought in my mind; and that was to witness a second of those interviews—the first of which had lacerated my heart to its core!
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
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 Musick, John R. (John Roy)
But if my first confession had lacerated my feelings, what was it to this one?
From The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional by Chiniquy, Father
He had fallen in doing so and had lacerated his hand.
From The Lonely House by Streckfuss, Adolph
