You might lacerate your legs if you ride too fast and fall on the jagged rocks. From LearnThat.org.
lacerate leaves. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : The barbed wire lacerated his hands. ,His bitter criticism lacerated my heart. From Dictionary.com.
"What will you show me to lacerate my spirit now?". From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Though they lacerate your feelings with an automatic squirt. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference
When the social stakes were higher, her words could lacerate. From Wordnik.com. [Geisha Doll] Reference
Jews only in West Barbary to cry "Ah! Ah!" and lacerate their faces. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
Did he really want to lacerate himself by seeing his home town again?. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
She seemed to have the power still to lacerate him, inside his bowels. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
And he kept drifting about to find Becky and lacerate her with the performance. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
Shall I lacerate a feeling, or tread upon ground made sacred by a grief, if I do so? '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Horses frequently fall and bruise or lacerate the knee when moving at trot or canter. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
If you try to pull it out backwards, you're going to lacerate more, tear more structures. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2006] Reference
Authors have feelings, which even scholastic young maidens cannot be permitted to lacerate. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
It is not however common for people to go on television and lacerate their fellow employees. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » We Shoot, We Score] Reference
No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities — sensibilities precious to me as my own. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
But so great was then the discrepancy of the word, that it would wound and lacerate the faith of. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
These slings of fortune, however lightly he pretended to receive them, never failed to lacerate him. From Wordnik.com. [Jennie Gerhardt] Reference
He would have known how it would lacerate to the core and create scars for which there was no healing. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
There was no occasion to lacerate Miss Darryll's feelings unduly, but I must see the family doctor at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
It was, perhaps, the first instance on record of a son being called upon to lacerate the body of his mother. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
"David!" she protested, her nerves contracting at this threat of a scene that must lacerate both their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
His diverticula -- small ulcers that lacerate the intestine and sometimes cause profuse bleeding -- got in the way. From Wordnik.com. [August 2006] Reference
And when you have a fracture, you can -- you can lacerate one of the -- one of the arteries that runs along the bone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2009] Reference
I don't have to lacerate myself in a marinade of guilt and shame, which I'll bet my meager savings Frey does at night. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Woods: James Frey is Still Full of Crap. But is He Ready to Rumble?] Reference
It was not great cataracts of water that came surging by them, dragging them against their bonds to lacerate their skin. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
In like manner the care of the world and the deceitfulness of riches lacerate the man who permits them to grow rank in his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
Matter continued to ooze from her pores and Mariko had to be restrained lest the incessant itching cause her to lacerate her skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
During the time of the ceremony the mother and other female relations lament and mourn, whilst they lacerate their bodies with shells. From Wordnik.com. [An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre] Reference
This is objectionable because the sharp points lacerate the mucous membrane of the cheek and tongue, and the mastication of the feed is seriously interfered with. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
They lacerate their bodies, but do not extract the front teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference
"Why lacerate my feelings by such a question?" said Florence, while. From Wordnik.com. [Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures] Reference
When, at night, the exhausted sufferers tried to rest, the young warriors came to lacerate their wounds and pull out their hair and beards. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
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