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lacerant

lacerant adjective: lacerating.

Adjective

lacerant (not comparable)

  1. lacerating
    • Sixthly, one upon the left temple, with laceration of the integuments and entire fracture of the bone, till part of the matter of the brain came out; made by an instrument incident and lacerant.1785, Christopher Hervey, Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany..., page 225
    • The method of protecting typewriting consisting in employing a typewriter embodying a platen, the usual types and an inked ribbon, inserting a material having a lacerant surface between the platen and the paper to be written upon, […]1918, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1225

Questions about lacerant

What does lacerant mean?
Lacerant means lacerating.
What part of speech is lacerant?
Lacerant is an adjective.

Words near lacerant in the dictionary

  1. lacepod
  2. lacepods
  3. lacer
  4. lacerability
  5. lacerable
  6. lacerant
  7. lacerate
  8. lacerated
  9. lacerately
  10. lacerater
  11. laceraters

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