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lacerate
Part of speech: VerbTo tear, as part of the body; to mangle; wound; to afflict with pain; as, to lacerate the feelings.
Part of speech: Noun Usage examples "lacerate":- We will in the first place, prove by a cloud of witnesses, that the slaves are whipped with such inhuman severity, as to lacerate and mangle their flesh in the most shocking manner, leaving permanent scars and ridges; after establishing this, we will present a mass of testimony, concerning a great variety of other tortures. - "The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus", American Anti-Slavery Society.
- When, at night, the exhausted sufferers tried to rest, the young warriors came to lacerate their wounds and pull out their hair and beards. - "Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour", Francis Parkman.
- There are men who have this power so slightly that a single sharp experience, a single pain, often a little injustice, will lacerate their souls like the scratch of a poisoned knife. - "Thoughts Out of Season (Part II)", Friedrich Nietzsche.