Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lacerate

Lacerate , transitive verb

[Latin laceratus, past participle of lacerare to lacerate, from lacer mangled, lacerated; compare Greek {not transcribed} a rent, rending, {not transcribed} to tear; perh. akin to English slay.]

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh.
To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Lacerate , past participle (adjectival)

[Latin laceratus, p. p.]

1.
Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound.
By each other's fury lacerate — Southey
2.
(Botany & Zoology) Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge.

Also: Lacerated