Synonyms of lacerating

lacerating 1 of 2

adjective

as in piercing

Related Words

• piercing
• jagged
• stabbing
• scratching
• jabbing
• knifelike
• clawlike
• spiky
• trenchant
• pointed
• daggerlike
• pointy
• cutting
• sharpened
• ground
• edged
• honed
• edgy
• sharp
• keen
• stropped
• whetted

Dissimilar Words

• blunt
• dull
• smooth
• rounded
• soft
• obtuse
• blunted
• dulled
• flat
• level
• even
• slick

lacerating

2 of 2

verb

present participle of lacerate

as in bruising

to cut (someone's flesh) deeply or roughly

The broken glass lacerated his feet.

The patient's hand was severely lacerated.

Related Words

• bruising
• wounding
• piercing
• slashing
• mangling
• tearing
• stabbing
• sawing
• slicing
• slitting
• splitting
• gashing
• butchering
• incising
• shearing
• hacking
• haggling
• cleaving
• ripping
• crosscutting
• severing
• rending
• scissoring
• goring
• dissecting
• carving
• hacksawing
• chipping
• chiseling
• riving
• chopping
• anatomizing
• sectioning
• notching
• mincing
• dicing
• amputating
• cutting off

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lacerating

Adjective

But Sinner, with his lacerating groundstrokes and impeccable anticipation, has a returning edge over Zverev. — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Mulligan delivers lacerating fragility, while Isaac turns Josh’s accommodating nature into a pathology, but both characters are littered with backstory details that Beef leaves hanging. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026

According to the Daily Mail, Rebecca Loos, David Beckham’s former personal assistant, had a few things to say about the long-simmering family drama, which exploded into public view Monday after 26-year-old Brooklyn Beckham posted a lacerating take-down of his parents on Instagram. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2026

Yet this stark, lacerating comedy-drama, set in a seaside Long Island that recalls Woody Allen’s Interiors, is admirable in its uncompromising look at the havoc a long-term sibling rivalry can create for everyone within the blast radius. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025

Her diaries, two volumes of which have been published, reveal a wonderful writer, lyrical and self-lacerating. — Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

His desperate, lacerating Teddy is a character who has ruined his own life, who has martyred himself out of his devotion to The Truth. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025

Australian playwright Tony McNamara has turned his side hustle as a screenwriter into a blessing for Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite), and viewers of The Great, his bawdy historical farce for Hulu, can attest to his love of layered, lacerating insults. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025

Irrational violence and lyric visions erupt in lacerating, supremely elegant prose that’s also genuinely funny at times. — Jon Raymond august 5, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025

Verb

Two generations of viewers have now grown up consuming The Daily Show’s lacerating take on politics. — Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

In the last year, Huston has broken his eye socket — twice — and his jaw, as well as lacerating his kidney, per posts on his social media. — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 28 June 2026

That biography took the form of a dark romance between the self-lacerating Louis and his fiercely loving but brutal maker, Lestat, filtered through the former’s brooding subjectivity. — Judy Berman, Time, 2 June 2026

The industry’s issues have come up in debates and on the campaign trail, certainly, but perhaps not so much as challenger (and ex-reality TV villain) Spencer Pratt’s lacerating AI videos about Bass’ role in last year’s devastating Pacific Palisades fires. — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026

The songs are at times over-the-top, at others lacerating in their introspection about everything from the anxiety of aging to the anguished choice to terminate a pregnancy. — Adam Bradley Luis Alberto Rodriguez Carlos Nazario, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025