[lac.er.ate] vt -at.ed ; -at.ing [ME, fr. L laceratus, pp. of lacerare to tear; akin to Gk lakis tear] (15c) 1: to tear or rend roughly
2: to cause sharp mental or emotional pain to: distress -- lac.er.a.tive adj
[2]lac.er.ate or lac.er.at.ed adj (1542) 1 a: torn jaggedly: mangled b: extremely harrowed or distracted
2: having the edges deeply and irregularly cut "a ~ petal"