单词 | lacerative |
释义 | lacerativeadj. That lacerates, tears, or cuts; lacerating; (figurative) afflicting, damaging. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > lacerated or lacerable > lacerating mangling1593 flesh-tawing1609 lacerating1609 lacerative1666 flesh-mangling1813 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xiii. 69 The continual afflux of lacerative (taring) humours. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Lacerative, tearing; having the power to tear. 1811 Amer. Rev. Hist. & Politics Oct. 234 The embargo system..of which the energies, so ostentatiously vaunted, are like those of the disciplinary scourge of a penitent monk, terrible and lacerative, only to the shoulders of the flagellant? 1818 E. T. Vaughan Let. to Rev. J. Beresford 174 Your full length portrait of its form and your self delighting rummage into its viscera compel me to maintain and exhibit truth, however lacerative and corrosive to all real tenderness of mind. 1883 J. M. Duncan Clin. Lect. Dis. Women (ed. 2) xiii. 121 This arises from lacerative injury. 1947 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 56 12 Of the eight lacerative weapons, five come from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and one each from the Caroline islands, the Solomons, and New Zealand. 1958 Shakespeare Q. 9 316 It completes his lacerative destruction of Chaucer's whole vision. 2015 I. F. R. Beasley in P. Volpi Football Traumatol. viii. 68/2 The calf is more prone to lacerative injury (from kicks either accidental or deliberate). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1666 |
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