Dictionary entry

Lacerate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Lac″er‐ate (?), Lac″er‐a′ted (?), } p. a. [L. laceratus, p. p.] 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.

By each other's fury lacerateSouthey.

2. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.