Lacerate

Definitions: Lacerate

Lacerate

Adjective

1. Irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves".

2. Having edges that are jagged from injury.

Verb

1. Cut or tear irregularly.

Date "lacerate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Science	Cut, torn or ragged. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lacerate

Synonyms: lacerated (adj), mangled (adj), torn (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disjunction	Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.
Pain	Hurt the feelings, wound the feelings, grate upon the feelings, grate upon the nerves, jar upon the feelings; wring the heart, pierce the heart, lacerate the heart, break the heart, rend the heart; make the heart bleed; tear the heart strings, rend the heart strings; draw tears from the eyes.
Physical Pain	Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lacerate

English words defined with "lacerate": Engore ♦ green fringed orchis ♦ Habenaria lacera ♦ Lacerating, Lacerative, Lanciname ♦ ragged orchid, ragged orchis, ragged-fringed orchid ♦ worry. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lacerate": Kadris. (references)

Etymologies containing "lacerate": Delaceration. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Lacerate the Sky (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Play	Caption
	Bubble; pop; future; space; science fiction; breach; bare; break in; break out; broach; burst; bust in; come apart; crack; disclose; display; disrupt; expand; expose; fissure; free; gap; gape; hole; jimmy; kick in; lacerate; lance; penetrate; perforate; p.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Lacerate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Lacerate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	33.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Language		Translations for "lacerate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shqyej (disjoint, dismember, pull, rend, rip, rip out, rip up, tear), i grisur (decrepit, dilapidated, infirm, ramshackle, rickety, threadbare), i çjerrë (cracked, piping, rent, strident, throaty), gërvisht (bark, clank, clapperclaw, claw, graze, jingle, Nick, scarify, scrabble, scratch, strum, tear), dhëmbë-dhëmbë (jagged, ragged, toothed), cingris nervat, çjerr (clapperclaw, claw, scratch, tear up). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممزق (disrupted, indented, jagged, lacerated, ragged, rent, riven, ruptured, shredded, tattered, torn), ‏مزق (cut up, disrupt, fracture, jag, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏جرح (break, cut, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏آذى (annoy, damage, disagree, harm, hurt, impair, injure, make mischief, malign, offend, prejudice, prey on, reflect, smear, work mischief). (various references)

Bulgarian		разкъсвам (bait, dismember, pick, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear off, tear open, tear up), огорчавам (afflict, aggrieve, embitter, envenom, exacerbate, gall, grieve, mortify, pain), измъчвам (afflict, agonize, ail, anguish, crucify, excruciate, fester, harass, martyr, martyrize, play up, prey, push, rack, rankle, ride, scourge, smite, torture, try, victimize, weigh on). (various references)

Czech		roztrhat (break up, pull apart, pull to pieces, rip up, savage, sunder, tear, tear apart, tear asunder, tear up), pořezat (saw up), odřít (abrade, chafe, chip, excoriate, flay, scrape, strip). (various references)

Farsi		پاره کردن (Cut, Mangle, Rend, Rip, Shred, Tear), مجروح کردن (Wound), عذاب دادن (Agonize, Grill, Lug, Put, Rack, Rankle, Torment, Torture), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Ail, Annoy, Distaste, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar), دریدن (Rend, Rip, Slit, Tear). (various references)

Finnish		raadella (tear, tear to pieces). (various references)

French		lacérer, déchirer. (various references)

German		zerfleischen (mangle, rend, rent, savage, tear into, tear limb from limb, tear to pieces, to lacerate). (various references)

Greek		σπαράσσω (tear to pieces), σχισμένοσ (split), ξεσκίζω (rip, to ravel out), ξεσχίζω (mangle), πληγώνω αισθήματα. (various references)

Hebrew		לסרוק (card, comb, scan, scour, scratch, search). (various references)

Hungarian		széttép (to lacerate, to mangle, to rupture, to shred), elszakít (tear, to break away, to tear, to tear away, tore, torn). (various references)

Indonesian		mencabik (rip, unrip). (various references)

Italian		lacerare (mangle, rend, rip, split, tear). (various references)

Manx		speiltey (chip, laceration, rend, shiver), scelpaghey (lash, rend), raipey (gore, gore of bull, laceration; crake, laceration; crake cry, pull apart, rend, rip, savage, snatch away, tear). (various references)

Norwegian		lage rift i. (various references)

Pig Latin		aceratelay.(various references)

Portuguese		lacerar (mangle, rend), lacerado (lacerated), lacerável, rasgar (claw, cut up, drag out, gutter, pull, rend, rip, Rive, tatter, tear), dilacerar (bite, cut up, rip, tear, tousle), atormentar (abuse, afflict, agonize, badger, bait, devil, discomfort, fret, gall, gnaw, grill, Harrow, Harry, lay hold, martyr, mortifying, obsess, oppression, pain, persecute, pester, pother, prey, rack, scarify, tantalize, torment, torture). (various references)

Romanian		tortura (bedevil, excruciate, gnaw, grill, Harrow, rack, tantalize, torture, wring), sfâşia (break, rend, rip), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, disrupt, gather, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot), nenoroci (cripple, destroy, plague), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, prick, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring). (various references)

Russian		раздирать, терзать (distress, drag, excruciate), мучить (agonize, bedevil, crucify, curse, drag, excruciate, fret, gnaw, grill, kill by inches, martyrize, press upon, rack, rankle, tantalize, trouble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razderati (rend, tear up), rastrgnuti (pull apart). (various references)

Spanish		lacerar (hurt, injure, savage, tear, violate). (various references)

Swedish		slita sönder (dismember, rend, tear to pieces). (various references)

Thai		ฉีกขา�". (various references)

Turkish		yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hit, hurt, injure, maul, pip, prick, rasp, scotch, wound), yırtmak (claw, cut the gordian knot, rend, rip, rip up, Rive, slash, slit, squirm out of, tear, tear to pieces), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, disrupt, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, quench, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, pother, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Turkmen		tьяt-mьяt etmek (tear pieces). (various references)

Ukranian		рвати (pull, rend, rip, tear, wrench), роздирати (lock out, tear), терзати (bedevil, excruciate, prey, rankle, worry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lacerate": lacerated, lacerates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lacerate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lacertae, lacuate, laseraze, Lassarat, Lucarotti, Lucraft. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lacerate" (pronounced la"serā't)
4	-s er ā' t	commiserate, eviscerate, incarcerate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-r-t"
	-1 letter: acerate, treacle.
	-2 letters: acetal, aerate, carate, cartel, cerate, cereal, claret, create, ecarte, elater, rectal, relace, relate, tercel.
	-3 letters: aceta, alate, alert, altar, alter, areae, areal, areca, arete, artal, artel, carat, caret, carle, carte, cater, clear, cleat, craal, crate, creel, eater, eclat, elate, elect, erect, lacer, laree, later, ratal, ratel, react, reata, recta, relet, talar, taler, telae, terce, trace.
	-4 letters: acre, acta, alae, alar, alec, alee, area, care, carl, cart, cate, celt, cere, cete, earl, lace, late, lear, leer, leet, race, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, tace, tael, tala, talc, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tree.
	-5 letters: aal, ace, act, ala, ale, alt, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cee, cel, ear, eat, eel, era, ere, eta, lac, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, rat, rec, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee, tel.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-r-t"
	+1 letter: altercate, lacerated, lacerates, traceable.
	+2 letters: accelerant, accelerate, altarpiece, altercated, altercates, carpellate, lacerative, reallocate, reescalate, tabernacle, trabeculae.
	+3 letters: accelerants, accelerated, accelerates, accelerator, aeroelastic, aliteracies, altarpieces, caterwauled, declarative, extractable, intercalate, leatherback, marketplace, reallocated, reallocates, recalculate, recalibrate, reescalated, reescalates, relocatable, retractable, secretarial, tabernacled, tabernacles, trabeculate, untraceable.
	+4 letters: accelerating, acceleration, accelerative, accelerators, accreditable, atheoretical, correlatable, endotracheal, extranuclear, forecastable, intercalated, intercalates, leatherbacks, marketplaces, merchantable, methacrylate, reaccelerate, rearticulate, recalculated, recalculates, recalibrated, recalibrates, recapitalize, recapitulate, recreational, reescalating, reescalation.
	+5 letters: accelerations, adrenalectomy, ascertainable, baccalaureate, calefactories, characterless, collateralize, convertaplane, decarboxylate, declaratively, extracellular, intracerebral, metacercarial, metamerically, methacrylates, parenthetical, reaccelerated, reaccelerates, reacclimatize, rearticulated, rearticulates, recalcitrance, recapitalized, recapitalizes, recapitulated, recapitulates, reescalations, sclerodermata, theatricalize, tractableness.
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