Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAC'ER-ATE
LAC'ER-ATE, or LAC'ER-A-TEDLAC-ER-A'TION
LAC'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. lacero, to tear.]
To tear; to rend; to separate a substance by violence or tearing; as, to lacerate the flesh. It is applied chiefly to the flesh, or figuratively to the heart. But sometimes it is applied to the political or civil divisions in a state.
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