Thesaurus results for LACERATED

lacerated

verb

past tense of lacerate

as in bruised

to cut (someone's flesh) deeply or roughly The broken glass lacerated his feet. The patient's hand was severely lacerated.

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Recent Examples of lacerated They are lacerated by propellers. —

Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026 Some of the women were bleeding from their reproductive organs, while others had blood dripping from slashes on their breasts, their bodies having been lacerated with a sharp instrument. —

Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026 In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass. —

Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025 Catherine’s right leg was lacerated to the bone and nearly amputated by a propeller. —

Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lacerated

wounded

Verb

Last week, a drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan killed 28 people and wounded dozens more.

— Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Witnesses to the downtown Sacramento mass shooting that left six dead and more than a dozen wounded as nightclubs closed on K Street sensed trouble in the moments before the shots were fired.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026