lacerate
verb (used with object)
to tear roughly; mangle.
have lacerated
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present perfectof lacerate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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And Swift unsweetened is no nursery rhymester; he is the most powerful ironist since Aristophanes, the blackest of all the great blackguards who have lacerated the conscience of mankind.
From Time Magazine Archive
It might have lacerated the flesh of The Big Foxes and provided a scathing picture of The Unamerican Way.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have lacerated the edges and stitched the slit well together many times but the milk will ooze out and prevent healing together.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
If I tell thee that I have lacerated an angel and deserve the sword, thou speakest of my skill in fence!
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The silicious fragments in that confounded earth have lacerated terribly the mucous membranes of these three unfortunate young men.
From Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Vachell, Horace Annesley
