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p.a. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. (Bot. & Zool.) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.


 - vb. To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.