lacerate

Other forms of lacerate

past tense

lacerated·

present participle

lacerating·

third person

lacerates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lacerate

What does lacerate mean?

lacerate means "cut or tear irregularly". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lacerate?

lacerate has 3 syllables: lac-e-rate. The stress falls on "lac". In IPA it is /ˈlæsɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for lacerate?

Close synonyms include lacerated, lacerated, mangled, torn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lacerate a common word?

lacerate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lacerate?

95 words rhyme with lacerate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.