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 Corbin fractured his jaw in two places, busted his upper arm, and lacerated his lip. — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Jen Macdonel, Claire Macdonel's mother, told Fox News Digital that the barracuda attack lacerated four of her daughter's tendons, in addition to a nerve and a ligament. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026 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

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wounded

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Overnight strikes elsewhere in Ukraine killed two police officers in Dnipro, officials said, while a drone attack in Kyiv wounded three people after hitting a residential building.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a shooting outside a laundromat on the edge of Carmichael that left a man wounded late Wednesday.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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