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lacerations

lacerations is the plural of laceration.

Meaning of laceration

Noun

laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)

  1. An irregular open wound to soft tissue.
    • The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
  2. The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.
    • Why the founders of St. Merryn's Hospital chose to erect their institution at a main-road crossing upon a valuable office site, and thus expose their patients' nerves to constant laceration, is a foible that I never properly understood.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 8

Questions about lacerations

What is lacerations the plural of?
Lacerations is the plural of laceration.

Words near lacerations in the dictionary

  1. laceraters
  2. lacerates
  3. lacerating
  4. laceratingly
  5. laceration
  6. lacerations
  7. lacerative
  8. Lacerda
  9. Lacerdas
  10. laceries
  11. lacers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lacerations (page history and authors); laceration (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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