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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
lacerate .
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Examples
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Mr. Bush "lacerates" his critics, despite the fact that they have been proven more correct than he: Even now, when a majority of Americans agree with the millions of citizens who demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq before the war, Mr. Bush refuses to communicate with, listen to, or learn from his critics.
Fred Branfman: President Bush is Endangering our Lives - 13. Actively Dividing Us at Home 2008
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She lacerates Obama, his administration and his family for failures in government spending, foreign policy, business, education, immigration, morality and faith.
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When the West lacerates and humbles itself, the mufsidun rise again.
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When the West lacerates and humbles itself, the mufsidun rise again.
Stromata Blog: 2006
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Walters lacerates herself for three failed marriages and a wayward adopted daughter.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora 2008
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The bullet passed from right to left markedly upwards and forwards, enters the right abdominal cavity where it transfixes and mutilates the right kidney, transfixes the right lobe of the liver, transfixes diaphragm, transfixes the lower lobe of the left lung, transfixes sibson fascia on the left, lacerates the left common carotid artery and emerges through wound no.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Dont u know that the pain of the loss lacerates the heart and lingers for life time. history mystery
ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2007
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Instantly, unless he is disabled by a well directed shot, he makes an onset, and, striking his antagonist with the palm of his hands, or seizing him with a grasp from which there is no escape, he dashes him upon the ground, and lacerates him with his tusks.
Essays 2007
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Have I no sore places in my mind which MECHI touches — which NICOLL probes — which no registered article whatever lacerates?
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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With the help of a thesaurus his mother had given him, Bush had erroneously written about “lacerates” running down his cheek – instead of tears.
Michael Kimmel on “The Boy Crisis” and Anti-Male Ideology 2006
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