Lacerated

Definition of lacerated:

part of speech: adjective

Having the margin or apex deeply cut into irregular lobes.

Usage examples for lacerated:

• But the hunter was terribly lacerated for the claws of a bear rip right to the bone, sinews, tendons, veins, everything being shorn clean through. "The Boy With the U. S. Survey", Francis Rolt-Wheeler.

• Debby, too, had kept her bed, declaring that she couldn't bear shoes on her poor lacerated feet. "Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party", C. E. Jacobs Edyth Ellerbeck Read.

• The appearance of Dangerfield's body, which had been frightfully lacerated by the whip, inclined many to believe that his death was chiefly, if not wholly, caused by the stripes which he had received. "The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)", Thomas Babington Macaulay.