Vocabulary Word
Word: laceration
Definition: torn ragged wound; V. lacerate: tear (the skin as with broken glass); wound
Definition: torn ragged wound; V. lacerate: tear (the skin as with broken glass); wound
Sentences Containing 'laceration'
'My love,' said Mr. Micawber, much affected, 'you will forgive, and our old and tried friend Copperfield will, I am sure, forgive, the momentary laceration of a wounded spirit, made sensitive by a recent collision with the Minion of Power--in other words, with a ribald Turncock attached to the water-works--and will pity, not condemn, its excesses.'
Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
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