Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: laceration
IPA transcription: [l,æsɚ'eɪʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: laceration
    Meaning: the act of lacerating
  • Synonyms: laceration
    Meaning: a torn ragged wound
Usage examples
  • I could see at a glance that even if so little as one of these fastened its talons upon the pearl rope of Mrs. Gushington-Andrews nothing under heaven could save it from laceration.
  • The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by the pocket-book, had turned aside and made the tour of his ribs with a hideous laceration, which was of no great depth, and consequently, not dangerous.