Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A jagged wound or cut.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Actinozoa, the formation of a new polyp by the separation of a portion of the basal expansion by contraction of the body.
  • noun The act of lacerating or tearing or rending.
  • noun A rough or jagged breach made by rending.
  • noun A wounding or harrowing, as of the feelings or sensibility.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of lacerating.
  • noun A breach or wound made by lacerating.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of lacerating
  • noun a torn ragged wound

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Examples

  • The sharp edges of the broken chest clip create a risk of a skin laceration and the fractured components of the chest clip may present a small parts/choking hazard.

    Britax recalls 19,601 Chaperone infant car seats due to brittle chest clip

  • Already without guard Bobby Jackson, who will miss three months because of wrist surgery, the Kings lost center Brad Miller to a shin laceration late in the first quarter and guard Doug Christie to an ejection in the third.

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  • LORD: A laceration is a cut which, in fact, can be received as a result of falling on the cement floor from a high velocity at six feet.

    CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2005

  • "Right now, he's fortunate that the laceration is the only thing that he sustained."

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  • -- The usual signs of fracture in connexion with some serious complication, such as laceration of bladder or rectum, injury to the peritoneum, division of arteries and veins.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.

  • Grimmjow's ultimate technique is called Desgarron or "laceration" in Spanish which projects energy claws at an opponent.

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  • All she can do is to struggle against it in secret — to sink in the contest if she is weak; to win her way through it if she is strong, by a process of self-laceration which is, of all moral remedies applied to a woman’s nature, the most dangerous and the most desperate; of all moral changes, the change that is surest to mark her for life.

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  • "severe contusion" under Spencer's right eye and a "laceration" above his lip.

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  • "severe contusion" under Spencer's right eye and a "laceration" above his lip.

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  • "severe contusion" under Spencer's right eye and a "laceration" above his lip.

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