different between lacerate vs lacerative

English

Etymology

From Middle English laceraten, from Latin lacer?tus, past participle of lacer?.

Pronunciation

• (verb): IPA^(key): /?læ.s?.ejt/
• (verb): Hyphenation: lac?er?ate
• (adjective): IPA^(key): /?læ.s?.?t/

Verb

lacerate (third-person singular simple present lacerates, present participle lacerating, simple past and past participle lacerated)

1. (transitive) To tear, rip or wound.
2. (transitive) To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.

Translations

Adjective

lacerate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

   The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.

Italian

Verb

lacerate

1. second-person plural present indicative of lacerare
2. second-person plural imperative of lacerare
3. feminine plural of lacerato

Latin

Participle

lacer?te

1. vocative masculine singular of lacer?tus

English

Etymology

lacerate +? -ive

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læs???t?v/

Adjective

lacerative (comparative more lacerative, superlative most lacerative)

1. Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate.
   • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions

     the continual afflux of lacerative humours

References

lacerative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• calaverite

Italian

Adjective

lacerative f

1. feminine plural of lacerativo