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lacerated
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lacerated has 2 senses
- lacerated(s = adj.all) lacerate - irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves"
- lacerated(s = adj.all) lacerate, mangled, torn - having edges that are jagged from injury; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
lacerated, p. a. [L. laceratus, p. p.].
- Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. [1913 Webster]"By each other's fury lacerate" [1913 Webster]
- Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. [1913 Webster]
lacerated, adj.
torn roughly; -- of skin. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
lacerated
afflicted, aggravated, agonized, battlemented, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, chopped, clawed, cleft, cloven, convulsed, cracked, crazed, crenate, crenated, crenellated, crenulate, crucified, cut, damaged, dentate, dentated, deteriorated, distressed, embittered, embrasured, erose, exacerbated, gashed, harmed, harrowed, hurt, hurting, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in distress, in pain, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incised, indented, jagged, jaggy, lacerate, lancinated, mangled, martyred, martyrized, mutilated, nicked, notched, on the rack, pained, quartered, racked, ragged, rent, ripped, riven, ruptured, savaged, saw-toothed, sawlike, scalded, scalloped, scorched, scored, serrate, serrated, serrulated, severed, shattered, shredded, slashed, slit, smashed, splintered, split, sprung, suffering, tattered, the worse for, toothed, tormented, torn, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wounded, wrung
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