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lacerates

lacerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lacerate.

Meaning of lacerate

Verb

lacerate (third-person singular simple present lacerates, present participle lacerating, simple past and past participle lacerated)

  1. (transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
    • Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed2019, “Human Target”, performed by Thy Art Is Murder
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
    • When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated...2012 September 15, Amy Lawrence, “Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton”, in the Guardian

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Questions about lacerates

What is lacerates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lacerates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lacerate.

Words near lacerates in the dictionary

  1. lacerate
  2. lacerated
  3. lacerately
  4. lacerater
  5. laceraters
  6. lacerates
  7. lacerating
  8. laceratingly
  9. laceration
  10. lacerations
  11. lacerative

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