Usually means: Tear or cut flesh roughly.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacerate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lacerate: Merriam-Webster
  3. lacerate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lacerate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lacerate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lacerate: Vocabulary.com
  7. lacerate: Wordnik
  8. lacerate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lacerate: Wiktionary
  10. lacerate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lacerate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lacerate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lacerate: Dictionary.com
  14. lacerate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lacerate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lacerate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lacerate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lacerate: Rhymezone
  19. lacerate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lacerate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lacerate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lacerate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lacerate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacerate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacerate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lacerate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. lacerate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lacerate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Lacerate: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lacerate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lacerated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
verb:  (transitive) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
adjective:  (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

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