lacerating

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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