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to lacerate
01
to tear the skin or flesh, causing deep and often irregular wounds
Transitive: to lacerate a person or skin or flesh
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
lacerate
3rd person singular
lacerates
Present participle
lacerating
Past simple
lacerated
Past participle
lacerated
02
to make someone suffer from a lot of emotional or mental pain
Transitive: to lacerate someone's emotions
03
to severely criticize or censure someone or something
Transitive: to lacerate someone's work
lacerate
01
having edges that are jagged from injury
Grammatical Information
Composition
past participle adjective
qualitative
Superlative
most lacerate
Comparative
more lacerate
gradable
02
irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn
Lexical Tree
lacerated
laceration
lacerate
