lacerated

[las-uh-rey-tid]

adjective

1. mangled; jagged; torn.

2. pained; wounded; tortured.

   lacerated sensibilities.

3. Botany, Zoology.,  having the edge variously cut as if torn into irregular segments, as a leaf.

Other Word Forms

• unlacerated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of lacerated¹

First recorded in 1600–10; lacerate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

A law enforcement official previously told The Times the boy suffered “massive injuries,” including a broken jaw, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver.

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"I broke my toe, five ribs, I lacerated my spleen, and I've got a big hole in the back of my leg that got badly infected," she said.

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He left the room, returning with a metronome whose loud, mechanical clicking lacerated the otherwise-fine mood being created by a Bach record on the turntable.

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He was locked in solitary confinement with welts “the size of a man’s finger” oozing from his lacerated back.

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These included a fractured skull with associated bleeding to the brain and retinal bleeding; 27 rib fractures; fractures to both thigh bones; fractures to both shin bones; fractured wrist and a lacerated liver.

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Related Words

• broken 
• cracked 
• damaged www.thesaurus.com
• divided 
• mangled www.thesaurus.com
• ripped 
• ruptured www.thesaurus.com
• severed