lacerate
verb (used with object)
to tear roughly; mangle.
lacerates
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present tense formof lacerate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Baumbach’s signature serio-comic touch, in which the humor lacerates as much as the drama, should be in full effect here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
This summer lacerates us as we gradually accept that warnings won’t work.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2021
This left Levy feeling like the possibility of motherhood has been cut off, and she lacerates herself for imagining she had it within her power to create a new kind of improvised family.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2017
As it is, spare a thought for likely runner-up, Michelle Williams for Manchester by the Sea, who lacerates your heart in a fraction of Davis’ screen time.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2017
It is not pain that lacerates; it cuts, and cuts clean when we keep ourselves still and let it do its merciful ministry upon us.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
