Lacerate

(verb.) cut or tear irregularly.

(verb.) deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; 'his lacerating remarks'.

(adj.) having edges that are jagged from injury .

(adj.) irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; 'lacerate leaves' .

桃乐茜编辑

• No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities--sensibilities precious to me as my own. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• These said that the choir would keep up their lacerating attempts at melody until they would bring down a storm some day that would sink the ship. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am conscious of a terrible necessity for lacerating those sympathies by referring to domestic events of a very melancholy kind. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Torn clothes, lacerated faces, dusty shoes, exhausted looks, and, above all, the horse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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