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
The district court lacerates the argument simply by restating it:
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2023
This summer lacerates us as we gradually accept that warnings won’t work.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2021
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
Throughout his life he seems to have made a hobby of the literature that arouses violent emotion and mental excitement, or lacerates the nerves, or shocks and startles.
From The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
