lacerate

Object

• wound: On the base of the skull there were four or five lacerated wounds; there were more wounds on other parts of the head.
• thigh: It was the lacerated thigh of a grenadier, whose flesh had been torn off by a hand-grenade.
• force: Katrina has rammed home that message once more, with lacerating force.
• backside: You'd have published photographs of their lacerated backsides.
• monolog: And the script is a marvel of intelligent, provocative writing, blending Murrow's lacerating monologs with a jagged, cynical journalistic humor.

Modifying Another Word

• severely: Latimer was severely lacerated by some of the barbed wire in the well.
• badly: Ziggy's back is so badly lacerated he has to take time off to recover.
• back: Again and again the throng fell on his lacerated back.
• thoroughly: It was Labor hopeful Nathan Oley who was thoroughly lacerated at the Columbia Road Tenants & Residents Association's hustings last night.