lacerate
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While large shards of plastic can lacerate organ walls, the smaller particles, known as microplastics, can be just as deleterious.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2023
New verbs entered the surf lexicon: shred, tear, lacerate.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019
When Brady doesn’t face quick pressure, he is typically able to lacerate opposing defenses with short passes.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2019
Despite the carping of her critics, Clinton does in fact lacerate herself for losing.
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2017
Thallus dichotomous, proliferous, the early divisions linear-oblong, the margins ascending and remotely sinuate, the later divisions linear-palmatifid, coarsely nerved; cells large, hexagonal; involucre ciliate-fringed or lacerate; calyptra smooth, included.—Wet limestones and shales.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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