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v. To rip, cut, or tear.

v. To cause deep emotional pain to; distress.

adj. Torn; mangled.

adj. Wounded.

adj. Having jagged, deeply cut edges: lacerate leaves.

v. To tear, rip or wound.

v. To thoroughly defeat; to thrash

adj. Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

v. To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle.

adj. Rent; torn; mangled.

adj. Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.

To tear roughly; mangle in rending or violently tearing apart: as, to lacerate the flesh; a lacerated wound.

Figuratively, to torture; harrow: as, to lacerate one's feelings.

Rent; torn: specifically applied (from natural appearance) in botany (also lacerated) to a leaf having the edge variously cut into irregular segments, and in anatomy to three foramina at the base of the cranium. See below.

adj. having edges that are jagged from injury

v. cut or tear irregularly

adj. irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn

v. deeply hurt the feelings of; distress

"They try to perforate the uterus, to get the foetus out, but often lacerate the cervix along the way, so many bleed heavily or leave tissue in the womb which becomes infected."

injured    rough    lacerated   

lacerated    lacerates    lacerating   

rupture    bust    tear    snap    bruise    hurt    offend    spite    injure    wound   

posterior lacerate foramen    anterior lacerate foramen    middle lacerate foramen   

lacerated    lacerating   

tear    rend    mangle    rent    torn    mangled    distress    wound