lacerate
la suh rayt
- v cut or tear irregularly
- v deeply hurt the feelings of; distress
- s irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn
lacerate leaves - s having edges that are jagged from injury
- In Scotland, memoirists would be expected to lacerate their enemies and rain garbage on them, and if you raked in $18 million doing it bingo! more power to you.
- Cataracts of electrically charged fragments of sound lacerate the air, scattering intimations of Dylan and colliding with the fierce rhythms of Springsteen's own wild fusion of .
- And then McCain will have the luxury of going second batting last next week, staging a convention that will, no doubt, lacerate Obama and the Democrats and then climax with .