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lacerate

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lacerate [′las·ə‚rāt]
(medicine)
To inflict a wound by tearing.
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And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the per- formance.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
It stiffened spasmodically, twitched and was still, yet the bulls continued to lacerate it until the beautiful coat was torn to shreds.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
And as he delivered the reply, Miss Squeers burst into a shower of tears; arising in part from desperate vexation, and in part from an impotent desire to lacerate somebody's countenance with her fair finger-nails.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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